Hal Holbrook Quotes (16 Quotes)

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

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

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.

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

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

I like to be who I am.

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.

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.

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.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

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.'

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

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

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.

I have a suicide impulse.

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.