Al Lewis Quotes

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

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• Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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

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• I’ve been in the struggle over seventy years – it doesn’t bother me I may not win.

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

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

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

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

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• 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!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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Birth:	30th April, 1923
Death:	3rd February, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Al Lewis was an American character actor best known for his role as "Grandpa Munster" on the television series The Munsters and its subsequent film versions. Later in life, he was also a restaurant owner, political candidate, and radio broadcaster. Lewis is thought to have been born April 30, 1923. Few other facts about Lewis are known with any certainty; most of the information comes from interviews he gave, but there are inconsistencies in his statements. Sometimes he gave his birth year as 1910, other times 1923. Ted Lewis, his son, said his father was born in 1923. Dan Barry of the New York Times wrote in reference to Lewis: "Actors who lie about their age usually subtract, not add, years, and few would have the nerve to fudge those years by more than a decade." Lewis was born under the name Albert Meister or possibly Alexander Meister to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.

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