Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself.…

— Hal Holbrook

I like to be who I am.

— Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience.…

— Hal Holbrook

[Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many…

— Hal Holbrook

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we…

— Hal Holbrook

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

— Hal Holbrook

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting…

— Hal Holbrook

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

— Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what…

— Hal Holbrook

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

— Hal Holbrook

Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile…

— Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

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

— Hal Holbrook

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

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

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me,…

— Hal Holbrook

This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's…

— Hal Holbrook

When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening…

— Hal Holbrook