Al Lewis Quotes

I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

Do I think Russians supported [Donald Trump]? Do I think they tried to get him elected? Do I think it worked against Clinton? I do. And that is something that has to be investigated.

I want [Donald] Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises.

Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.

I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.

Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.

I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.

John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

It is interesting that [James Comey] is not doing investigations about the possible - possible ties between [Donald] Trump's campaign and the Russians.

I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room.

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.

What has been doing in the last week, attacking Hollywood actresses [Meryl Streep] for criticizing him, I mean what would is this guy [Donald Trump] living in?

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.

Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.

I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

All the musicians that I know want to act.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.

I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.

The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.

As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head.

You’'ve got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I don’t miss anything.

Every era that comes along has a superstar that emerges. Once we are out of the game, there will be a superstar who will emerge that everyone will notice.

People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.

[Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action.

I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.

Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.

I don't see where Tyson Fury has boxed anybody of Wladimir's [ Klitschko] calibre to be able to get in the ring with Wladimir and do well.

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

During the past twenty-three years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I’m proud to say that these goals have been achieved.