Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Edgar Bergen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Edgar Bergen.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Edgar John Bergen was an American actor, comedian, vaudevillian and radio performer, best known for his proficiency in ventriloquism and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. He was the father of actress Candice Bergen.

American - Actor | February 16, 1903 - September 30, 1978

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

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

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

Edgar Bergen

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

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

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

Edgar Bergen

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

Edgar Bergen

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

Edgar Bergen

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

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

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

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

Edgar Bergen

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

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