Hal Holbrook Quotes

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

I've had a very full career in the theatre, on stage, in films and on television.

I have a suicide impulse.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.

I like to be who I am.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.