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Why do I keep performing at m...

Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself."

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I think I may drop dead on th...

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.

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[Mark] Twain is pointing at y...

[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.

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I walked the streets of New Yo...

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

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I never, ever update Mark Twai...

I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on stage, I'm trying to make the audience believe they're looking at this guy who died 104 years ago and listening to him and saying to themselves, 'Jesus, he could be talking about today.' And that's the point.

Hal Holbrook 52 quotes

I think I may drop dead on the...

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 52 quotes

I've had a very full career in...

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

Hal Holbrook 52 quotes

Why do I keep performing at my...

Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. 'Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself.'

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[Mark] Twain called Congress ...

[Mark] Twain called Congress 'the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary.' That was a fact.

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Lobbyists in Washington are ma...

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.

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Politics has become incendiary...

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.

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When the audience begins to se...

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?

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What are we going to do about ...

What are we going to do about the injuries to our country still going on right in front of our eyes? It gets me out of bed in the morning. It makes me mad enough to get my blood up and want to get out there with [Mark] Twain and get it said and that is why I still hit the road and go out on the stage and keep working at staying alive.

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I don't play golf. Mark Twain ...

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

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Death ends a life. But it does...

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

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I like to be who I am....

I like to be who I am.

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Mark Twain cannot be defined....

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

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I tended to lean toward charac...

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

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Look, see, learn, become a cit...

Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

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I got a feeling about politica...

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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