Giancarlo Esposito Quotes
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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When in doubt, do it.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
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Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more compartmentalized and is more impulse-driven.
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At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
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I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.
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To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.
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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
