Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. Quotes

• 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.

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

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

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• I have a suicide impulse.

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

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• 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.

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• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

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• 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.

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• There’s no good guys and bad guys.

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• To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (13)

Birth:	17th February, 1925
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is an American film and stage actor. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show he developed while in college, performing as Mark Twain. His role in several films include: The Group, All the President's Men, Julia, The Fog, Creepshow, The Firm, Men of Honor, Into the Wild( nominations-Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), and Lincoln. He has won five Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award for his 1966 portrayal of Twain in Mark Twain Tonight. He graduated from the Culver Academies and Denison University.

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