Words matter. These are the best Edward James Olmos Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don’t have it, we get situations like Bosnia.
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.
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.
Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don’t want to do them.
I’m here to make sense.
Success is a matter of one’s own feeling about oneself.
I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn’t want to do.
Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.
I’m always pleased when people respond to the work.
There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn’t take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.
I’m not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.
Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.
I love to drive. It’s one of the most pleasurable things to me.
I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.
We don’t have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.
When you’re asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
At the rate we’re going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It’s going to be pretty violent.
Education is a vacine for violence.
I don’t support violence, period.
‘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.
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.
Sometimes you gotta do things that you don’t really want to do. But you don’t do them for money.
And I’ve been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That’s how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.
You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.
Education is the key. But it’s the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don’t have it.
Education is the vaccine for violence.
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.
