Edward James Olmos

Actor

36 Quotes

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.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

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

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

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.

I'm here to make sense.

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

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 learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

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

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

Education is a vacine for violence.

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

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