64 Quotes by Hal Holbrook

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

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

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

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.

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.

There’s no good guys and bad guys.

I’ve had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

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

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.