I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one. — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
The main thing about money is that it makes you do things you don't want to do. — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them. — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
[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… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
[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… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f88/hal-holbrook-17109_age_why-do-i-keep-performing-at-my-age-what_2677226.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca3/hal-holbrook-17109_american-literature_mark-twain-is-pointing-at-you-you-the-re_3109645.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d7/hal-holbrook-17109_america_mark-twain-called-congress-the-only-dist_751817.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/087/hal-holbrook-17109_bigs_mark-twain-was-a-publisher-he-published_1197578.jpg)
