Acting Quote by Orson Bean

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the…

— Bill Irwin

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

— Daniel Clowes

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

— Al Sharpton

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news…

— Lynne Reid Banks

I remember being captivated by Steve Coogan and Eddie Izzard and wanting to do what they did. That generation of comedians was my main…

— Lee Mack

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news…

— Lynne Reid Banks

I came up during the formative years of TV.

— Tom Braidwood

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

— Alan King

When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

— Shelley Berman

The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or Carl Sandburg…

— Kelsey Grammer

The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being an actor…

— Alden Ehrenreich