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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."
"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
Explore more quotes by Edward James Olmos
"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."
"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them."
"And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over."
"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."
"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."
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