Edward James Olmos

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

Edward James Olmos: (to "Battlestar Galactica" fans at Comic-Con International 2006) I'm not the kind of guy who's gonna tell you, "Get a life." I think people who say stuff like that should get their a**h*les checked.

Edward James Olmos: I didn't get into this business to get awards or get acclamation. I did it because I was searching for my own sense of who I was as a human being....

Edward James Olmos: I'm very curious to see how the [Battlestar Galactica] writers are going to handle the discovery of Earth. What state will Earth be in? Will we be prehistoric? Will it be 1937? Will it be 2080? I've always thought it would be interesting to have us find Earth during the very last episode, and then after this long journey, after everything they've been through, the humans of Earth nuke us (laughs).

Edward James Olmos: When I was growing up I'd watch Twilight Zone and One Step Beyond. I watched Flash Gordon in the movie houses before it went to TV, and then I watched it on TV as well.

Edward James Olmos: I tend to measure [technology's progression] with extreme skepticism, because inevitably the intention under which something is conceived comes out in the content. Intent equals content. And the intention of, as an obvious example, nuclear discovery and development was never to advance humanity. They found ways of using it to advance humanity and then they used that as the cornerstone of their rationale, but it was conceived and developed as a means of extermination and as a means of creating a force of power that would enable a certain system or system of beliefs to remain dominate.

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

Edward James Olmos: I just don't deal with any government. I don't deal with the United States government. When it comes to understanding humanity, they're the worst.

Edward James Olmos: For me, Cesar Chevez was a saint. Martin Luther King was not a saint. He was a great man, he did great things, but he was not a saint.

Edward James Olmos: 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.

Edward James Olmos: Education is a vaccine for violence.

Edward James Olmos: I started working in theatre in my first year in college out of a necessity to learn more about myself. I never thought I could make a living because I was a sociologist at heart. In fact that's what my degrees are in sociology. But I continued to work in theatre and spent many many years in theatre perfecting my craft and then moving onto television and film.

Edward James Olmos: This is not politics; this is a question of humanity. There can be no bombing where people live.