Al Lewis Quotes

I'm very much open to the possibilities.

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

Having done television, I was used to either being aware whether I got the part within the same day, or within two, three days max.

As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.

I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.

Alan Rickman, who was mentored me a lot. He was very keen to offer his opinions on stuff. Not in a pretentious way. Not in a patronizing way.

Leeds is quite laid-back.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

I never went to drama school.

I'm very professional.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much.

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I don't feel hunky at all.

A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.

Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal.

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.

Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent place in it.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.