Quotes by Candice Bergen

About Candice Bergen:

Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model. For her role as the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as Best Actress in a TV Comedy. She is also an Academy Award nominee.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

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

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

Candice Bergen

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

Candice Bergen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Candice Bergen

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

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

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

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameCandice Bergen
  • Descriptionactress
  • BornMay 9, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor; Model; Television Presenter