Edward James Olmos

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm here to make sense.

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

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.

'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.

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.

Education is a vacine for violence.

Education is the vaccine for violence.

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

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

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

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

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