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 HolbrookMark 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 HolbrookI got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
Hal HolbrookMan is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Hal Holbrook