Hal Holbrook Quotes

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• Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.

  Hal Holbrook

  Government, Lobbyists, Salary

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.

  Hal Holbrook

  Country, Eye, Men

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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.

  Hal Holbrook

  Character, Men, Looks

  "Fictional character: Lou Mannheim". "Wall Street", www.imdb.com. December 11, 1987.

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

  Hal Holbrook

  Lying, Hate, Thinking

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• 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

  Hal Holbrook

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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

  Hal Holbrook

  Death, Ends

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• 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.

  Hal Holbrook

  Jesus, Believe, Talking

  "Holbrook’s ‘Mark Twain’ show reaches 60th year". Interview with Brett Zongker, www.seattletimes.com. April 3, 2014.

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• 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.

  Hal Holbrook

  Thinking, Discipline, Resistance

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• 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."

  Hal Holbrook

  Golf, Years, Play

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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

  Hal Holbrook

  Money, Want, Bud

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• 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.

  Hal Holbrook

  Fun, Laughing, Drowning

  Hal Holbrook (2011). “Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain”, p.64, Macmillan

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

  Hal Holbrook

  Mad, Sometimes, Communicate

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

  Hal Holbrook

  Sells

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• [Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

  Hal Holbrook

  Class, America, Criminals

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• What are we going to do about the injuries to our country still going on right in front of our eyes? It gets me out of bed in the morning. It makes me mad enough to get my blood up and want to get out there with [Mark] Twain and get it said and that is why I still hit the road and go out on the stage and keep working at staying alive.

  Hal Holbrook

  Country, Morning, Eye

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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

  Hal Holbrook

  Character, Disguise

  "Holbrook's 'Mark Twain' show reaches 60th year". Interview with Brett Zongker, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 2, 2014.

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• 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

  Hal Holbrook

  War, Vaccines, People

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• 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.

  Hal Holbrook

  Stupid, White, People

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

  Hal Holbrook

  Religious, Animal, Men

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• I like to be who I am.

  Hal Holbrook

  Who I Am

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• Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake them up with some truths and the truths I aim at them are over 100 years old. Facts that no one can dispute.

  Hal Holbrook

  Years, People, Facts

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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

  Hal Holbrook

  World

  "Mark Twain, Then and Now, and the Invention of ‘Hispanic’". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2004.

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• This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?

  Hal Holbrook

  Hurt, School, America

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• 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.

  Hal Holbrook

  Hate, Thinking, Desire

  "Holbrook's 'Mark Twain' show reaches 60th year". Interview with Brett Zongker, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. April 2, 2014.

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

  Hal Holbrook

  Citizens, Looks, Messages

  "Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. Janary 12, 2015.

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