Top 100 Quotes About Holbrook
#1. What time do you need to be at work tomorrow, Hon?' Lexi asks.
Well, Ruby's back, so nine o'clock.'
What does Ruby being back have to do with anything?'
She's the human stopwatch, remember? Marriage doesn't change everything.
Erynn Mangum
#3. Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson
#4. Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
#7. To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
Hal Holbrook
#9. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
Holbrook Jackson
#10. 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
#11. Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you'll never have all of them. And that's okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward.
Michael Holbrook
#12. So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.
Anthony Edwards
#13. Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
#14. The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
Holbrook Jackson
#15. 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
#17. I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.
Hal Holbrook
#18. World class communities come in all shapes and sizes, they are not determined by geography, and/or natural resources so much as by the mindset of their local leadership.
Don A. Holbrook
#20. Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.
Sean Penn
#21. A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
Holbrook Jackson
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don't want to play the same role twice.
Boyd Holbrook
#26. Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#27. The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
Holbrook Jackson
#30. If you can't find the spirit of the holidays in your heart, you'll never find it under a tree.
Michael Holbrook
#31. I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.
Boyd Holbrook
#32. Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit.
Michael Holbrook
#34. There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.
Boyd Holbrook
#35. The Black Book of Economic Development - The Clandestine Art and Practical Science of Building Local Economies" is a must-read for everyone in the industry who is seeking to make a positive impact on both his or her communities and the profession.
Don A. Holbrook
#36. There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
Holbrook Jackson
#37. [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.
Hal Holbrook
#38. Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
Holbrook Jackson
#39. We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Holbrook Jackson
#40. Director Tom Stone is currently a potato farmer in Holbrook and could not be reached for comment. RECORDING
Adam Rex
#43. I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
Hal Holbrook
#44. We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.
Hal Holbrook
#47. The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
Holbrook Jackson
#49. 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
#50. I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to a point in time where people are saying, "Oh, you know, loss and change, that's just normal."
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#57. We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.
Michael Holbrook
#58. Live life as an observer but not a spectator. Learn the rules, get in the game, break some rules. Live. Experience. There is no exhilaration to be achieved sitting on the bench.
Michael Holbrook
#59. I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.
Boyd Holbrook
#60. [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.
Hal Holbrook
#61. Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
Holbrook Jackson
#62. A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."
Holbrook Jackson
#63. Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.
Boyd Holbrook
#64. [Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his own books. He would, I think, be very keen about the question of how a book would sell.
Hal Holbrook
#66. Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
Boyd Holbrook
#67. The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
Holbrook Jackson
#68. I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#69. Be careful because cyberspace is a two way street those that hunt and stalk and troll can also become the hunted by those that they harass and attack. Cyberspace has a definite dark side.
Don A. Holbrook
#70. Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.
Hal Holbrook
#72. I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.
Hal Holbrook
#73. smashed that kid's face in. I bashed his brains until they were splattered across the floor. Eric snapped his fingers to bring Aaron back around. "Earth to Holbrook.
Ania Ahlborn
#74. Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.
Hal Holbrook
#75. Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
Holbrook Jackson
#76. Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson
#77. History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
Holbrook Jackson
#79. 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
#80. A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
Holbrook Jackson
#81. I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.
Hal Holbrook
#82. Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.
Hal Holbrook
#84. 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
#85. 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
#87. I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
Hal Holbrook
#88. 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
#89. Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.
Michael Holbrook
#90. Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
Holbrook Jackson
#91. I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
Hal Holbrook
#92. I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
Boyd Holbrook
#93. When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
Boyd Holbrook
#94. I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
Boyd Holbrook
#96. There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
Boyd Holbrook
#97. If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#98. 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
#100. 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
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