A biography for Orson Beanhasn’t been written yet.
“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 addition of 'the Fatherland.'”
“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 begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.”
“Hollywood is very divisive.”
“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.”
“I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.”
“I make more than a handsome living doing voices for commercials; I hear myself all day on the tube.”
“Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.”
“What is it with me? I seem to be an incorrigible black-listee.”
“I certainly have no plans to quit the United States.”
“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 work out for America. Our money says In God We Trust. And we are the best country, aren't we?”
“I think America was a miracle. I think God loves this country.”
“I did my teen-age years in World War II. War news was a constant. We kept the radio on in our house to hear Edward R. Murrow broadcasting from the rooftops of London, describing the blitz.”
“The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.”
“I don't think that the theater should necessarily pay.”
“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.”
“When I grew up, which was really in the 30s and the 40s, the movies were a moral guideline for me.”
“It's funny, I never watch TV. I watch Fox News.”
“Advertising has always been part show biz.”
“For most of my life I didn't believe in God. Who had time?”
“I did a lot of TV work for more than 30 years in New York and L.A., but I would get on the stage whenever I could.”