Quotes from Edward James Olmos

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.

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

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.

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.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.

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.

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

'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.

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.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

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

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

I don't support violence, period.

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

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Education is a vacine for violence