Edward James Olmos movie quotes

“We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It's exhausting!”
Edward James Olmos - Abraham Quintanilla

“- Juror #4: Gentlemen, let me remind you this case is based on a reasonable and logical progression of facts. Please, let's keep it.
- Juror #11: Facts may be coated by the personalities of the people who present them. Let's not forget that.”
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Juror #4
Edward James Olmos - Juror #11

“There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

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

“When we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder because of greed, spite, jealousy. And we still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“Cihuateteo. That's what my mother called them. The souls of women who had died giving birth. They became Cihuateteo, the spirits who helped the sun to set. Without Cihuateteo, the sun would not be able to rest.”
Edward James Olmos - Paco

“We have struggled since the attacks, trying to rely on one another. Our strength and our only hope as a people, is to remain undivided. We haven't always done all we could to insure that.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“- Admiral William Adama: Politics. As exciting as war. Definitely as dangerous.
- President Laura Roslin: Though in war, you can only get killed once. In politics it can happen over and over.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama
Mary McDonnell - President Laura Roslin

“- Abraham Quintanilla: You were out there wearing a bra!
- Selena Quintanilla: It's not a bra!
- Abraham Quintanilla: It's a bra with little sprinkly things on it!”
Edward James Olmos - Abraham Quintanilla
Jennifer Lopez - Selena Quintanilla

“Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change.”
Edward James Olmos

“The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.”
Edward James Olmos

“I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.”
Edward James Olmos

“Education is the vaccine for violence.”
Edward James Olmos

“La Eme took a long time earning the respect in this place, and if we wanna keep it, we gotta show some class.”
Edward James Olmos - Montoya Santana

“We decided to play God, create life. When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play God then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“The Cylon War is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but sometimes it's too high.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“Every man has to decide for themselves which side they are on.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“Whatever we had, we gave it away.”
Edward James Olmos - Montoya Santana

“- Puppet: I heard about what happened. I'm sorry, Santana. Mi carnalito, he messed up.
- Montoya Santana: It wasn't his fault, ese. It was all American beef. When they wanna pop you they're gonna pop you.”
Danny De La Paz - Puppet
Edward James Olmos - Montoya Santana

“- Juror #10: The kid's a punk, he don't even speak good English!
- Juror #11: He doesn't even speak good English.”
Mykelti Williamson - Juror #10
Edward James Olmos - Juror #11

“Everyone said the police had killed Chucho, but my mother never believed it. She knew that he was meant to die at the river. Chucho's life had been on borrowed time, but you cannot cheat fate forever. The spirit of the river had returned to claim what was rightfuly his.”
Edward James Olmos - Paco

“Many people believe that the scriptures, the letters from the gods, will lead us to salvation. Maybe they will. But the gods shall lift those who lift each other.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“It's not wolves, it's Wolfen. For 20,000 years Wilson, ten times your fucking Christian era, the skins and wolves and the great hunting nations, lived together, nature in balance. Then the slaughter came.”
Edward James Olmos - Eddie Holt

“Blaming my father for everything I did, isn't that the life of every kid?”
Edward James Olmos - Montoya Santana

“Everyone thought it was odd that Toni was going to be a nun, but then she always was the bossy type, and that's the type that usually becomes a nun.”
Edward James Olmos - Paco