Edward James Olmos

“Education is the vaccine for violence.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“I'm here to make sense.”

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

“I don't support violence, period.”

“I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.”

“I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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