Candice Bergen quotes:

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.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 savored life with such gusto as I do now.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

Glamorized... am I glamorous?