Hal Holbrook famous quotes

06-13-2025

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

#Lying #Hate #Thinking
I like to be who I am.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Who I Am
Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Death #Ends
I have a suicide impulse.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Suicide #Impulse
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
-- Hal Holbrook

#War #People #Want
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
-- Hal Holbrook

#Opportunity #Thinking #People
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.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Fun #Laughing #Drowning
We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
-- Hal Holbrook

#World
To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Mad #Sometimes #Communicate
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.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Stupid #White #People
There's no good guys and bad guys.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Guy #Good Guy
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Directors #Audience
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Religious #Animal #Men
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Money #Bud #Want
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.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Thinking #Discipline #Causes
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.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Character #Men #Looks
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Mark

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