Top 36 Quotes by 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.

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

I don't support violence, period.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

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.

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.

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.

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

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