Orson Bean Quotes

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Orson Bean

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 22, 1928

Well, I haven't done that many movies, but the best one was 'Being John Malkovich.'

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I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance.

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I was blacklisted and overnight my TV appearances dried up. Ed Sullivan called to cancel my appearance and said he'd help me when he could, and a year later he did. Only a few wackos wanted the blacklist. It was a protection racket.

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I knew people who were real Communists but never made it onto the blacklist and kept on working. There were also people reputed to be Communists who weren't.

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TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.

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Hollywood is very divisive.

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I never cared what anyone thought about me.

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I loved New York in the '50s.

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Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.

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I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.

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I mean, acting is so easy! I love it and I'm good at it.

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Anything that's done correctly is easy.

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I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.

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Part of me is nonhuman and eccentric, which is what a hobbit is, and I don't mind being eccentric.

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Every restaurant in the world is owned by a Greek.

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The people who get bored and want to get out of a long-run aren't the people who actually like to act.

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I like to work. I like to go every night and play a part.

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My grandfather lived in New England all his life and was a Vermonter.

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Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'

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Advertising has always been part show biz.

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