Top 100 Bergen Quotes
#3. David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic ...
Miriam Toews
#4. I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
Wyclef Jean
#5. It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.
Jeff Dunham
#6. On my first day on the set of 'Boston Legal,' I thought the director was calling me 'Candice' instead of 'Constance.' But I didn't realize he was actually talking to Candice Bergen.
Constance Zimmer
#7. Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet ... Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English,
Kate Atkinson
#8. The photographs of the inmates at Bergen-Belsen or Andersonville Prison or the bodies in the ditch at My Lai disturb us in a singular fashion because those instances of egregious human cruelty were committed for the most part by baptized Christians.
James Lee Burke
#9. I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.
David Bergen
#10. I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
Candice Bergen
#11. Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Bergen Evans
#12. Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'
Erich Bergen
#13. It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
Candice Bergen
#14. Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
Bergen Evans
#15. Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
Candice Bergen
#16. There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.
Peter Bergen
#17. I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
Candice Bergen
#18. My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to Cousin Brucie - the guy who broke the Four Seasons on the radio. So I knew all of their songs, but I didn't know they were all by the same group.
Erich Bergen
#19. The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
Bergen Evans
#20. when you conclude a paper, you should always close a door and open a window
Benjamin K. Bergen
#21. But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
Candice Bergen
#22. Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies ... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world.
Peter L. Bergen
#23. Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
Candice Bergen
#24. I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
Candice Bergen
#25. I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote big hits for Barry Manilow. So two guys who inspired me to write lyrics are now teaching me to write.
Erich Bergen
#26. It sounded nothing like the classic "That's all folks" that the character did. So everytime I'm asked to do it - and nine out of ten "Looney Tunes" shows ends with Porky coming out saying "That's all folks" - I'll say to them, which one do you want?
Bob Bergen
#27. I will tell you that the ego in me would love to play the lead. I would have loved to have been Buzz Lightyear, or Woody in "Toy Story," "Toy Story 2" but they hire celebrities for that, well-known people.
Bob Bergen
#28. 'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.
Erich Bergen
#29. I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
Candice Bergen
#30. Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.
David Bergen
#31. The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.
Candice Bergen
#32. If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a sense of what al Qaeda, the organization, was on 9/11, 9/11 appears to be more or less inexplicable.
Peter Bergen
#33. Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.
Polly Bergen
#34. 'Jersey Boys' was a lot of running around and a lot of energy, but it was more stylized movement.
Erich Bergen
#35. Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.
David Bergen
#36. 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
#37. In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.
David Bergen
#38. There is an elegance to knowing who you are that will help you unfold a sweet tolerance for yourself. Knowing and liking yourself will then allow you to be kind and compassionate to others, deeply aware that they want the same things: love and contentment.
Margaux Bergen
#39. When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.
Polly Bergen
#40. An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
Bergen Evans
#41. I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
Candice Bergen
#42. Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.
David Bergen
#43. I love pork. I love a good BLT. I know that sounds horrible but I do. I'm a total foodie. I love cooking and I love traveling and I love finding new places to eat and new cuisines to eat. Don't be shocked if you see me munching down on a baby back rib.
Bob Bergen
#44. Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.
David Bergen
#45. The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
David Bergen
#46. OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
Edgar Bergen
#47. Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
Bergen Evans
#48. I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen
#49. Once you prove yourself, that you're a utility player, they're going to contact you and say, hey, yeah, we need you for a film next Thursday at Fox or Sony or whatever. You kind of get a reputation.
Bob Bergen
#50. The Wizard of Oz." "No, no, no," said Sophie. She quickly
Lara Bergen
#51. I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remember going out to dinner with my mom afterward and reading the souvenir program like crazy!
Erich Bergen
#52. When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
Candice Bergen
#53. You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.
David Bergen
#54. I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
Candice Bergen
#55. I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden ... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.
Peter L. Bergen
#56. So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
Peter L. Bergen
#57. Mel Blanc passed away in '89, and they held auditions, and I did my first job [as Porky Pig] in 1990.
Bob Bergen
#58. As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it. You say to yourself 'I don't have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I'm a fraud.' And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence.
Erich Bergen
#59. Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.
Polly Bergen
#60. Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
#61. Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.
Peter Bergen
#62. Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.
Peter L. Bergen
#63. Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
David Bergen
#64. I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
David Bergen
#65. I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one.
David Bergen
#66. People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen
#67. I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.
Candice Bergen
#68. Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
#69. I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.
David Bergen
#70. The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination.
David Bergen
#71. Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Candice Bergen
#72. Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
Bergen Evans
#73. The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.
Peter L. Bergen
#74. I started having a lot of problems with my voice in my mid-30s.
Polly Bergen
#75. John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.
Polly Bergen
#76. An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don't write in a vacuum, and we don't publish in a vacuum.
David Bergen
#77. There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom ...
Bergen Evans
#78. As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.
Polly Bergen
#79. But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
Edgar Bergen
#80. I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
Candice Bergen
#81. Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
Edgar Bergen
#82. I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be this one cartoon character [Porky Pig], couldn't figure out why I couldn't do it, other than living in the midwest.
Bob Bergen
#83. Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.
Peter Bergen
#84. At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
Candice Bergen
#85. Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Candice Bergen
#86. 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
#87. I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen
#89. It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
Candice Bergen
#90. At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.
Peter L. Bergen
#92. The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.
Candice Bergen
#93. I'm fortunate in that I'm what you call a utility player, in that I can take a scene, if there's five or six minor characters in a scene, that need voice and personality [and] I can supply those characters.
Bob Bergen
#94. Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.
Candice Bergen
#95. After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
Edgar Bergen
#96. I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
Edgar Bergen
#97. As a person, I'm just really kitchy and corny, and I love '70s variety shows.
Erich Bergen
#98. Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific comedy writers and are able to put these classic characters in new and interesting, and quite funny situations for today.
Bob Bergen
#99. People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.
Candice Bergen
#100. I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
David Bergen
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