Edward James Olmos

“At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Education is a vacine for violence.”

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

“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.”

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

“Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“'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.”