Candice Bergen Quotes

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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

Idiot, Like, Practically, Collapsed

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

- Candice Bergen

Memory, Remember, I Remember, Correctly

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

- Candice Bergen

Middle, Been, Middle Age, By-Product

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, Think, Very, Pin

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

- Candice Bergen

Dreams, Short, Cursed, Spans

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

- Candice Bergen

Career, Role, Being, Women Are

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

- Candice Bergen

Mom, Bread, Greatest Thing, Sliced

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

- Candice Bergen

Love, Woman, Waste, Brick

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

- Candice Bergen

Surface, Note, Virtually, Sheets

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, Rather, Though, Entitlement

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, Think, Set, Blessing

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

- Candice Bergen

Me, Tell, Lot, Monogamy

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

- Candice Bergen

Hollywood, Like, Picasso, Bathroom

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

- Candice Bergen

Me, Apply, Going, Realize

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

- Candice Bergen

Love, Most, Certainly, Near

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

Thought, Tears, I Remember, Hospital

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

Run, Reach, Hollywood, Real Life

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

- Candice Bergen

I Am, Vengeance, Most, Phased

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

- Candice Bergen

Life, Never, Now, Gusto

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

Think, Very, Weeks, Leaving

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

- Candice Bergen

Lucky, More, Felt, Enjoyed

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

Grateful, Still, Offers, Offering

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

- Candice Bergen

Am, Glamorous

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

Which, Fathers, Perfectly, Intelligent

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

Think, Sweeter, Increasingly, Obsession

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

- Candice Bergen

Work, Meant, Were, Babies

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

- Candice Bergen

Beauty, Other, Set, Behavior

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