Al Lewis Quotes

It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

The longer the test the better you feel when it's over.

The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

Shortcuts aren't always.

Nobody can pedal the bike for you.

Crawling still gets you there.

You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.

You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

It's more fun to color outside the lines.

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I love playing sport.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.