Quotes of Edgar Bergen - somelinesforyou

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

- 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

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

- Edgar Bergen

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

- Edgar Bergen

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

- Edgar Bergen

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

- 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

“ 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… ”

- 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

“ 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… ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- 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… ”

- Edgar Bergen

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

- 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

“ 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… ”

- 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… ”

- 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

“ 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… ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- 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

“ 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

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

- 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
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