Quotes from Edgar Bergen

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

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

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!

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

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

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

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