Candice Bergen Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

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.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one

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.

I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.

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.

The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.

It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.

THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man!

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.