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Al Lewis
American
Actor
About the author
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Food
#Workers
I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Want
#People
I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Years
#Medicine
#Entertainment
#Carnival
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Satisfaction
I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Right
I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Old
#Memory
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Kids
#Sunset
But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Love
#Uniqueness
As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Opinion
America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#America
#Politicians
I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Body
I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Love
#Kids
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Life
#Woman
#Mother
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Sense
#Mother
#Struggle
There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Right
#World
#War
#Country
#History
#America
#states
#United
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Time
#Struggle
#Victory
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Forget
#Class
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Right
#Poor
#Sleep
My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Success
#Hell
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Years
#May
#Struggle
I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
Al Lewis,
American
Actor
#Opportunity