Candice Bergen Quotes
"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
(Related: Home, Thought, Being, Tears)
"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
(Related: Age, People, Film)
"I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Life, Skin)
"It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am."
- Candice Bergen
"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
(Related: Women, Life, Being, Hollywood, Risk)
"Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Age, First, Memory, Middle age)
"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
(Related: Being, Fathers, Speech)
"Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Mom, Kids, Parents, Relationships)
"I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Women, Being, Career)
"Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Age, Middle age, Self)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Importance, Sense)
"Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?"
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Women, Work, Babies)
"Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Love, Men, Independence, Waste, Woman)
"I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Life, Now)
"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Beauty, People, Behavior)
"I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Mom, Life, Daughter)
"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
(Related: Financial, Boys, Commitment, Relationships)
"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
(Related: Today)
"I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Love, Comedy)
"I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you."
- Candice Bergen
"I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Choice, Now, Post)
"Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Hollywood)
"Glamorized... am I glamorous?"
- Candice Bergen
"Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Dreams, Life)
"But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Being)
"When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?"
- Candice Bergen
"But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives."
- Candice Bergen
"I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Time, Friend, Being, Obsession, Quiet)
"At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance."
- Candice Bergen
(Related: Age, Being, Vengeance)