Occupation: Actor Birth: February 17, 1925
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….
Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain..
The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world….
[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 no….
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great ….
[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." T….
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 m….
If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young man he began piloting steamboats ….
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 ….
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 do….
There's no good guys and bad guys..
We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world..
I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me..
I don't have a director. The audience directs me..
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think..
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 audienc….
[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 woul….