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
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.
fun laughing drowning
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.
country morning eye
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.
men talking listening
When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?
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.
years people facts
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.
careers television film
I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.
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.
dislike instant takes
And I'm a very irascible, bullheaded Scot who takes an instant dislike to her.