Quotes from Candice Bergen


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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.


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


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.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Glamorized... am I glamorous?


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.


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


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