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
airplane bug caught coming laughs preview threw till
I threw up on the airplane coming back from Tennessee, ... I don't know if it's a bug I caught on the plane or fear. It could be nerves. Till we get that first preview audience, we don't even know where our laughs are.
dislike instant takes
And I'm a very irascible, bullheaded Scot who takes an instant dislike to her.
dreamed response york
I never dreamed the kind of response I would get from the New York critics. It was an unbelievable success.
asked dixie liked occurred wonderful
He said he had this play and asked if I'd read it, ... I liked it a lot and told him that I'd do it. At the same time, it occurred to me, 'You know, Dixie would be wonderful for this.'
hate lying thinking
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
jesus believe talking
I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on stage, I'm trying to make the audience believe they're looking at this guy who died 104 years ago and listening to him and saying to themselves, "Jesus, he could be talking about today." And that's the point.
hate thinking desire
I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.
world
We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
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.
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.