Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

'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.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

I'm here to make sense.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

I want to show how strong I am from my roots.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

I don't support violence, period.

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos

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