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Hal Holbrook Biography

Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (born February 17, 1925) is an American film and stage actor and television director. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show he developed while studying at Denison University, performing as Mark Twain.

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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.

Bills, Government, Lobbyists, Making, Salaries, Salary

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

Hate, Lying, Political, Saying, Think, Thinking

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

Character, Disguise, Lean, Love, Tended, Toward

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

Mark, People, Prove, Vaccines, War

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

Golf, Mark, Play, Twain

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.

Candy, Drowning, Fun, Laughing, Learn

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, Dignity, Educating, Eye, Men, Working

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

Audience, Director, Directors, Directs

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

Citizen, Citizens, Learn, Looks, Messages, Missouri

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

Bud, Money, Thing, Things, Want

[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.

Big, Book, Hand, Hands, Keen, Thinking

Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake them up with some truths and the truths I aim at them are over 100 years old. Facts that no one can dispute.

Dispute, Facts, Funny, People, Wake, Years

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

Acting, Actors, Channeler, Eloquent, Iphone, Shortcut

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.

Back, Jobs, Men, Traffic, War, Young

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

Free, Opportunity, People, Thinking, Use

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

Begging, Jobs, New York, Walked, Years, York

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

Desire, Hate, Manage, Retire, Stage, Thinking

[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.

American, Book, Thirty, Today, Years

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

Death, Ends, Life, Relationship

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

Animal, Man, Men, Religion, Religious

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