Edgar Bergen Quotes

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

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

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

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