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
directors audience
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
jobs new-york years
I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.
religious men animal
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
guy good-guy bad-guys
There's no good guys and bad guys.
mark defined
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
who-i-am
I like to be who I am.
death ends
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.
suicide impulse
I have a suicide impulse.
world
We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
jobs war men
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young man he began piloting steamboats on the Mississippi, a job he loved and wanted to do the rest of his life, he said. The Civil War ended traffic on the River and his job. He wrote about it in A History of A Campaign That Failed. He said: "I joined the Confederacy, served for two weeks, deserted, and the Confederacy fell." His attachment to the Southern ideal of slavery does not appear very sturdy.
daughter new-york leader
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.
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.
iphone acting actors
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.
sells
Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.