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'm always pleased when people respond to the work.

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.

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.

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

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

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