Edward James Olmos Quotes

I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.

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

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.

We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?

Education is the vaccine for violence

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

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

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

It's in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

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.

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

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

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

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

Education is a vacine for violence.

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

'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.

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

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

What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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