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Quotes by "Hal Holbrook"

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.
— Hal Holbrook
Tags: nothing, character, moment, man
There's no good guys and bad guys.
— Hal Holbrook
Tags: bad-guys, good-guys, guys, bad, good
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
— Hal Holbrook
Tags: political, lie, feeling, hate
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.
— Hal Holbrook
Tags: society, opportunity, democracy, people
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.
— Hal Holbrook
Tags: go, people, war, you
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
— Hal Holbrook
Tags: mark-twain, twain, defined, mark, cannot
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.
— Hal Holbrook
Tags: problems, stupid, people, you
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
— Hal Holbrook
Tags: true, animal, religion, man
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