Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Al Lewis

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Al Lewis
American - Actor
April 30, 1910 - February 3, 2006

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

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

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

Al Lewis

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Al Lewis

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

Al Lewis

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

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Al Lewis

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

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

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

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Al Lewis

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

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

Al Lewis

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

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

Al Lewis

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

Al Lewis

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

Al Lewis

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

Al Lewis

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

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

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

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

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

Al Lewis

Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Al Lewis

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