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 LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
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 LEWISOscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
AL LEWISWhat motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
AL LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISThe ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
AL LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
AL LEWISI probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
AL LEWISMy secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
AL LEWISUnderstood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
AL LEWISThe most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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.
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