Quotes from Edward James Olmos


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Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.


Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.


Education is a vacine for violence.


Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.


I don't support violence, period.


I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.


I'm always pleased when people respond to the work.


I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.


Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.


At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.


You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.


And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.


Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.


And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.


I'm here to make sense.


Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.


I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.


'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.


When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.


You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.