64 Quotes by Hal Holbrook

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

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

This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God’s sake, speak up. Don’t we need to learn respect for people’s feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it’s hard for them to turn away from it because they’re listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?