Donald Hall Quotes

I've always been a stubble man; I don't do clean-shaven.

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

I'm a really big fan of facial hair.

I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it.

If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.

It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

I've just always rocked the goatee. Maybe a beard for a minute or some thick sideburns, but I've only been clean-shaven for, like, two days in my adult life.

I'm not a guy that shaves. I'm not a guy that styles my hair.

I don't like facial hair.

I always wanted facial hair as soon as I could get it.

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.

As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For 'Million Dollar Baby,' I had no facial hair. For 'Men in Black 3,' I had no facial hair but did wear a wig.

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

I guess, to tell you the truth, I've never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I've managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache.

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

American history is … best understood as a millenarian movement.

I love a good goatee. I'm actually obsessed with goatees. I do like my men smooth, though. I like him to smell really good, so a great cologne is always hot.

A moustache is actually the one thing I really can grow. One of the bad parts about my facial hair situation is that I can't grow sideburns. I'm happy to still have my own hair on my head, but I can't grow any sideburns. If you ever see me with sideburns, they're not real.

When I was in my early twenties, I used to grow all sorts of very weird beards. All of them awful in retrospect. I had Civil War beards for a while, then Mennonite beards.

It's strange that a little facial hair causes that much excitement.