Edward James Olmos
Education is a vacine for violence.Collection: Education
Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Environmental
Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.Collection: Education
Education is the vaccine for violence.Collection: Education
'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.
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.
We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.
I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.
Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.
I don't support violence, period.
Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.
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.
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
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.
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.
Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.
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.
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.
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.
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.
I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.
Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.
I want to show how strong I am from my roots.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.
When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.
I'm always pleased when people respond to the work.
I'm here to make sense.
I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.
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.
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 saintCollection: Simple
We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?Collection: Spiritual
Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.Collection: Journey
Education is a vaccine for violence.Collection: Education
It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.Collection: Light
We all come from someplace. We didn't just get here by accident. Where we come from has got to be known, if you want to know where you are and who you are. You cannot understand the present without understanding the past, especially when it comes to family.Collection: Past
Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do themCollection: Discipline
Education is a vacine for violenceCollection: Violence
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.Collection: Caring
We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.Collection: Country
We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educatedCollection: Years
If it’s change you need, relish the journey.Collection: Journey
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 throughCollection: Real
Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like BosniaCollection: Important