Al Lewis Quotes

Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

And now, will y'all stand and be recognized.

This is unparalyzed in the state's history.

I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.

You can't wake up looking for the recession.

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

Jesse Ventura is basically proof that the people of Minnesota are not social drinkers... they are obviously alcoholics.

I'm amazed that anyone is interested in what I have to say.

I collect clothes-they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

If I don't feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn't box any more.

The Tyson fight was like the hardest I ever trained for a fight in my entire career.

When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.