Candice Bergen Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them. — Candice Bergen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think. — Candice Bergen

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

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little. — Candice Bergen

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

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

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

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom. — 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

I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one — Candice Bergen

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

THE MAN. Can't they realize that mankind was founded on two basic principles? Religion and Death? The one motivates the other. Both motivate the man! — Candice Bergen

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

The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well. — Candice Bergen

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

Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night. — Candice Bergen

The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself. — Candice Bergen

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

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