Edgar Bergen Quotes

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

  Edgar Bergen

  Funny, Business, Work

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41

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• 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

  Procrastination, Ambition, Bird

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

  Edgar Bergen

  Plot, Communist, Buried

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Edgar Bergen

  Mistake, Adversity, Overcoming

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

  Edgar Bergen

  Important, Asking, Answers

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• Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

  Edgar Bergen

  Needs, Friend In Need, Wells

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• 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

  Movie Love, Church, Television

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• 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

  Book, Night, People

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• Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

  Edgar Bergen

  Happens

  "Fictional character: Charlie McCarthy". "Fun & Fancy Free", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• 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

  Bible, Stars, Fun

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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

  Travel, Years, Tourism

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