Author Profile
Orson Bean
1928 – 2020 • American • Actor
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesOne night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. I got laughs, so I decided to keep it.— Orson Bean
I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam 'cause he wouldn't be accused of being soft on communism.— Orson Bean
People shouldn't get into show business because they want to become stars or become rich; they should get into it because they can't help but put on a show.— Orson Bean
I didn't use a voice change to do Bilbo. I have a distinctive voice anyway. I did an attitude change, making Bilbo kind of fussy - fussy and proper - then gradually dropped the fussiness and properness as the madness of battle really affects him.— Orson Bean
Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of business; it simply wanted in on it.— Orson Bean
Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.— Orson Bean
I am dedicated to giving my kids the memory of happy parents. So I spend a lot of time with them. We really know each other. If they should decide later on that they hate me, at least they'll know who they're hating.— Orson Bean
I think of my life as a cheap novel. Part of you wants it to go on forever, and part of you wants to see how it comes out.— Orson Bean
In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought of me as that, and not as a theater person.— Orson Bean
I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too much. My kids were growing up without me, and suddenly I thought, 'I want some other stuff.' So I stopped working instead of cutting back, and went to Australia instead of Vermont.— Orson Bean
The people who get bored and want to get out of a long-run aren't the people who actually like to act.— Orson Bean