Edgar Bergen Quotes & Sayings

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist. — Edgar Bergen

We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous. — Edgar Bergen

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? — Edgar Bergen

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. — Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. — Edgar Bergen

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays. — Edgar Bergen

I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I? — Edgar Bergen

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed. — Edgar Bergen

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object! — Edgar Bergen

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. — Edgar Bergen

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers. — Edgar Bergen

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are. — Edgar Bergen

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God? — Edgar Bergen

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission. — Edgar Bergen

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie? — Edgar Bergen