Edgar Bergen Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

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

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

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

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

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

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

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.

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!

To think that this was once Happy Valley.

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

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

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.

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

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Trivia

In 1947, Edgar became the first president of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences.