American - Actor | February 17, 1925 -
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
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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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I have a suicide impulse.
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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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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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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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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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I like to be who I am.
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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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