I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
It's never been written about, but before the blacklist of Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten, there was a de facto blacklist… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
I knew people who were real Communists but never made it onto the blacklist and kept on working. There were also people… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Possessions can possess you. Even a lawn can possess you. It makes you buy a garden hose. Which makes you water. Which cuts into… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it will all… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
My wife and I sold our house New York and moved to Australia for a year; then we came back and spent almost three… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm proudest of, one year on my refrigerator, I taped a Christmas card from the Republican National Committee and season's… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
