Edward James Olmos
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"Edward James Olmos" is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)/Battlestar Galactica, Miami Vice#Main characters/Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena (film)/Selena, Detective Characters in Blade Runner#Gaff/Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the Zoot Suit (play)/stage and Zoot Suit (film)/film versions of Zoot Suit (play)/Zoot Suit.

In 1988, Olmos was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the film Stand and Deliver. He is the first and only Hispanic-American to be nominated for Best Actor.

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Education is the vaccine for violence.

It is brutal - brutal - when you see what happened to them, ... You simply go, 'Wait a minute - this was not shown to anyone?' .

Star Trek: The New Generation.

I'm here to make sense.

Anthony was truly a gift to all of us and to millions and millions and millions of people. He was prolific, outstanding; he gave his life to others.

The great players of yesterday have blazed a trail.

This film is going to touch your lives whether you want it to or not. And you're going to understand something that's going to tear you apart. This film is going to cause a lot of people to stand up and walk out again.

I should be so lucky. I'd be very, very proud if it inspired them to have their own voice.

The protest will be very important, because it will teach a lesson to politicians and the rest of the United States.