Hal Holbrook Quotes

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Hal Holbrook

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• I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Look
  • Choice

• I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Me

• The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Right
  • Kiss

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Environment

• I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Easy

• I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Audience
  • Started
  • Pilot

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Chance

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Next

• The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Me
  • Without
  • Engagement

• If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

  

  Earl King
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Serious

• Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Party
  • Everyone

• I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Father
  • Person
  • Felt

• I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Comedy
  • Audience
  • Said

• 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Think
  • Part
  • Final

• I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Life
  • Home
  • Guy

• There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Director