Quotes by Candice Bergen

• 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.
• I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
• 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.
• It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
• 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.
• Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
• 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.
• 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 got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
• 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.
• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
• Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
• I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
• Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
• 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 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 certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
• I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
• Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
• Glamorized... am I glamorous?
• Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
• 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.
• When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
• But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
• 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.
• At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.