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
She understood what the struggle was about. You become aware. It hits you in the stomach and then a cop hits you on the head.
One of the best things you can do in a situation like this is to show them a lot of kindness. They are being taken from their homes and being carted up in the air and then dropped with a bunch of strangers. When you are nice to them, they can smile.
It's too nebulous. You can't understand anything. They keep saying, 'It's coming; it's coming.' It isn't here.
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 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 was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.
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 have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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.