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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