You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours. AL LEWIS AheadBetterRightStageThinkYour
I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that? AL LEWIS BodyImportantKnowMentionMore
I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist. AL LEWIS DoneEntertainmentEveryExistIncludeMediumProbablySingleSomeWork
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 AroundHave BeenLongStrong
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? AL LEWIS BothBridgeEqualOscarPoorRichRightSleepUnder
As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail. AL LEWIS BestFailFailingGaveLongOpinionShot
I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. AL LEWIS BragContributeDidHaveKnow
I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there. AL LEWIS BuildingEmptyHouseLiveNeedPeopleThink
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago. AL LEWIS AcceptAgoLngLongStruggleTimeVictory
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 AudienceNeedNeedsRadioResponseSatisfactionSilentTelevision
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 DinnerEveryFiftyFridayKidRunwaySixtySunsetTakeUseWait
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. AL LEWIS ClassCreativeForgetLessonLongMoreRuleSmarterStrong
The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had. AL LEWIS AmountBrutalCausalCountryEverGreatMostOwnWar
My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means. AL LEWIS CongratulationsHellMeanSecretSuccess
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 AbsoluteDoGetLoveSomethingUniquenessWay
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 GraduateMoreMotherReadSenseStruggleUnderstandWrite
America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling. AL LEWIS CountryDeserveGetKeepPoliticsStruggle
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 ImmigrantLifeMomMotherMotivatedPeasantWomenWork
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina. AL LEWIS AgricultureCountryDownFoodOrganizeTobaccoUnionWorker
I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio. AL LEWIS CarnivalCircusEighteenMedicineOwnRadioShowWorkYear
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. AL LEWIS CapitalCertainCivilCountryHistoryJunkyMostPeriodRightWarWorld
If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! AL LEWIS CallSquatterStreetThieveWant
