64 Quotes by Hal Holbrook

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

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

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 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 never dreamed the kind of response I would get from the New York critics. It was an unbelievable success.

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

[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.

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

[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.