What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. See image Al Lewis
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. See image Al Lewis
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago. See image Al Lewis
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. See image Al Lewis
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways. See image Al Lewis