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Top 25 Hal Holbrook Quotes (2025 Update)

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Hal Holbrook Quote: “The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don’t want to do.”

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

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “Death ends a life. But it doesn’t end a relationship.”

3. “Death ends a life. But it doesn’t end a relationship.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn’t get one.”

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

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.”

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

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.”

6. “To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that’s got true religion, several of them.”

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

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “There’s no good guys and bad guys.”

8. “There’s no good guys and bad guys.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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?”

13. “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?”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.”

14. “Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “I like to be who I am.”

15. “I like to be who I am.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “I have a suicide impulse.”

16. “I have a suicide impulse.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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?”

17. “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?”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Hal Holbrook Quote: “There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.”

20. “There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.”

— Hal Holbrook

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Hal Holbrook Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “I don’t play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.”

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

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “I’ve had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.”

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

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Hal Holbrook Quote: “I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.”

24. “I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “We don’t have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.”

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

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Hal Holbrook Quote: “Mark Twain cannot be defined.”

26. “Mark Twain cannot be defined.”

— Hal Holbrook

Hal Holbrook Quote: “Success is no longer content. It’s how it sells.”

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

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Hal Holbrook Quote: “I don’t have a director. The audience directs me.”

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

— Hal Holbrook

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