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
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
I’ve never felt more comfortable in my skin, I’ve never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky. – Candice Bergen
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
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don’t waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. – 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 guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread. – 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 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 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
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 admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention. – 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
