Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmosis an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla, Jr. in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit. In 1988, Olmos was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth24 February 1947
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia
I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them
It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does ?
Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.
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
I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet
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
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does
I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.
Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.
Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.