Quotes from Orson Bean

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 greetings from Gus Hall of the American Communist Party. They both stayed up their months and I'm proud of it.

Old people come up to me and say, 'Are you still alive? I used to watch you on 'To Tell The Truth' when I was a kid.'

My wife and I sold our house New York and moved to Australia for a year; then we came back and spent almost three years bumming around the country in an old '61 VW van. We put the kids in school wherever we happened to be, but mainly we reveled in being rootless.

Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there's a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun.

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.

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

Advertising has always been part show biz.

I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam 'cause he wouldn't be accused of being soft on communism.

Men are attracted to youth and beauty; women are attracted to power.

Hollywood is very divisive.

I like to work. I like to go every night and play a part.

Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.