I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
AL LEWISI worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
AL LEWISEvery 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 LEWISI went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
AL LEWISI 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 LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISBut 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 LEWISOscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
AL LEWISBecause if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
AL LEWISYou think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
AL LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
AL LEWISI probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
AL LEWISI think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
AL LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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