Top 36 Quotes by Edward James Olmos

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

'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.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

I'm here to make sense.

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.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

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

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

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

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.