Candice Bergen Quotations

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.

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

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

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

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.

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

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

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

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.

I remember the pilot like it was yesterday, ... From the day I read that script, there was some kind of destiny to it.

Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves.

I traveled and read a lot, but I didn't have any real desire to work, though I harbored the knowledge I should get off my butt and back to work.

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.

I love the sort of cat and mouse with Denny Crane and that's really fun to play,

I'd seen the show, and I'd read the reviews of the show, and I said, 'Oh! What I wouldn't give to work with those two guys.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

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

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

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

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.

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.