Candice Bergen Quotes

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Candice Bergen

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 9, 1946

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

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

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

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

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Glamorized... am I glamorous?

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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.

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

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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.

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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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