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. Orson Bean Read Quote
I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality. Orson Bean Read Quote
War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected. Orson Bean Read Quote
When I was a kid, FDR on the radio said, ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ We should be afraid of fear, or at least of acting out of it. Orson Bean Read Quote
San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another. Orson Bean Read Quote
Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there’s a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun. Orson Bean Read Quote
If there should be one place where you should forget politics, forget whether you’re liberal or conservative, whether you hate Trump or love him, it should be the ballgame. Orson Bean Read Quote
