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
country eye men
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.
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.
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.
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.'
dreamed response york
I never dreamed the kind of response I would get from the New York critics. It was an unbelievable success.
cause developed learned resistance
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.
golf play mark
I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
character men looks
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.
class america united-states
[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.
money want bud
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.
book thinking hands
[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his own books. He would, I think, be very keen about the question of how a book would sell.
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.
government salary bills
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.
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.