Al Lewis
Al Lewis
Al Lewiswas an American character actor best known for his role as Count Dracula lookalike "Grandpa Munster," opposite Fred Gwynne's and Yvonne DeCarlo's characters on the CBS television series The Munsters from 1964 to 1966 and its subsequent film versions. Later in life, he was also a restaurant owner, political candidate, and radio broadcaster...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth30 April 1923
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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.
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.
America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.