Candice Bergen Quotes

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 revealed too much too soon. I was emotionally slutty.

No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you'll never get through it without your friends.

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

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

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.

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.

Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.

It takes a long time to become a person.

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

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.

As a mother, I am a backup singer in every way. There's never been a shred of competitiveness. I've always been thrilled whenever Chloe was front and center.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

The next year was kindergarten. On Parents Night we filed in and sat on the little chairs. It was just after the United States had launched its war against Iraq, and the teacher began to describe the children's curriculum for the year, I raised my hand, ever the firebrand, and asked if she'd be teaching the kids about the Gulf War. There was a collective gasp as the other parents looked at me with horror. The teacher paled and said softly, "We're working on colors.

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 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.

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