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Candice Bergen
American
Actress
About the author
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,
American
Actress
#People
#Beauty
#Expectations
#Project
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,
American
Actress
#Home
#Being
#Thought
#Tears
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,
American
Actress
#Film
#People
#Age
I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Life
#Skin
It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Hollywood
#Being
#Risk
#Women
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#First
#Age
#Memory
#Middle age
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,
American
Actress
#Being
#Speech
#Fathers
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,
American
Actress
#Relationships
#Kids
#Parents
#Mom
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Career
#Being
#Women
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Self
#Age
#Middle age
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,
American
Actress
#Sense
#Beauty
#Importance
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Work
#Women
#Babies
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Love
#Independence
#Men
#Woman
#Waste
I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Now
#Life
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#People
#Beauty
#Behavior
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Life
#Daughter
#Mom
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,
American
Actress
#Relationships
#Commitment
#Boys
#Financial
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,
American
Actress
#Today
I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Love
#Comedy
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Now
#Choice
#Post
Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
Glamorized... am I glamorous?
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Life
#Dreams
But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Being
When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Being
#Friend
#Quiet
#Obsession
At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
Candice Bergen,
American
Actress
#Being
#Age
#Vengeance