78 Quotes by Edward James Olmos

I don’t support violence, period.

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

I’m not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

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.

The older you get the more you understand what you’re doing.

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

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

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.