Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook
Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr.is an American film and stage actor. Holbrook first received critical acclaim for a one-man stage show he developed while in college in 1954, performing as Mark Twain...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth17 February 1925
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
golf years play
Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."
war people want
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope
suicide impulse
I have a suicide impulse.
death ends
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.
who-i-am
I like to be who I am.
mark defined
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
world
We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
mad sometimes communicate
To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
stupid white people
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
book years literature
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.
guy good-guy bad-guys
There's no good guys and bad guys.
opportunity thinking people
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society
directors audience
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
sells
Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.