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Quotes by Edgar Bergen

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
– Edgar Bergen
After a sabbatical from radio for nearly a year, I needed to work with Charlie again. Ventriloquism is not like riding a bicycle. I have to keep practicing or Charlie would sit tounge-tied, silently staring at me with the chill eye of a department store dummy.
– Edgar Bergen
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
– Edgar Bergen
Charlie, what is nature of life?
– Edgar Bergen
Charlie, where is the soul?
– Edgar Bergen
Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.
– Edgar Bergen
Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
– Edgar Bergen
I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
– Edgar Bergen
I would like to see a vaudeville world of three-a-day. Five-a-day is too many. Managers who are trying to profit at that rate will gorge themselves right out of business. You can't put entertainment on a production line basis.
– Edgar Bergen
I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
– Edgar Bergen
Maybe it is the war or the movies or because this generation was bred on radio comedy, but I found out that they want bombastic stuff with a lot of drive. They have little time for whimsy. It varies, of course, from town to town. The Hartford audience was sharper on some things than the Buffalo audience. Political jokes go, depending upon how the community votes. A Negro audience will pick up subtle comedy quicker than anyone else.
– Edgar Bergen
My friend Charlie McCarthy is, of course, much more of a celebrity than he was 13 years ago... They wanted to see McCarthy: striped pants, monocle, derby and Bergen's bald head. If that had happened in radio, the reaction would have been slow, diffused and debatable. I wouldn't learn anything from an audience sitting in a broadcasting studio in Hollywood, because those people all are in my business.
– 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
OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
– Edgar Bergen
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
– 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
To think that this was once Happy Valley.
– 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
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
– Edgar Bergen
When I ask him these questions and he answers, I haven't got the faintest idea what he's going to say, and what he says astounds me with his wisdom. It is so much more that I know.
– Edgar Bergen
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
– Edgar Bergen
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
– Edgar Bergen
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
– Edgar Bergen