Candice Bergen Quotes

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

Beauty, Others, Sense

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

Dating, Hard, Down

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

Time, Friend, Book

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

Beauty, Between, Behavior

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

Mom, Life, Greatest

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

Beauty, Person, Blessing

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

Age, Vengeance, Phased

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

Important, Hard, Show

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

Life, Dreams, Short

Glamorized... am I glamorous?
Candice Bergen

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
Candice Bergen

Hollywood, Bathroom, Picasso

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

Choice, Admit, Surface

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

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

Love, Comedy, Near

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

Today, Together, Idiot

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

Women, Career, Loved

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

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

Said, Whole, Speech

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

Home, Thought, Remember

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

Age, Down, Grateful

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

Life, Lucky, Felt

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

Life, Women, Real

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

Age, Remember, Memory

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

Love, Men, Woman

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Nationality: American

Born: May 9, 1946

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