Edward James Olmos Quotes
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
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I think there's as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel - in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language - as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.
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You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.
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If life has hit out at you, and you weren't prepared for it, a little housefly has only to cough and it will knock you flat
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My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
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And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
