Orson Bean Quotes

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

I didn't become an actor for the money, so I can't stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.

You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of money or not.

My movies don't make any money, and they don't really light the world on fire. But I'm really lucky because I've gotten them made.

It's important to say that the more challenging a scene is, in a way, the more fun it is because the more of my job I get to do.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor.

I come from theater, originally, and I've worked in many theaters where you make no money, whatsoever. If you got 3,000 people to see your production, it was great. So, I'm always about the work and I always want to strive for making the best story possible. I don't get hung up on trying to compare myself.

I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.

But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

I guess voice acting is just fun, interesting to say...but it is.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.