Al Lewis Quotes & Sayings

“What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”