Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Candice Bergen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Candice Bergen.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown. She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008). In films, Bergen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over (1979), and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi (1982).

American - Actress | Born: May 9, 1946

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

Candice Bergen

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

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

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

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

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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

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

Candice Bergen

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

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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 believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

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

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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!

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

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The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

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People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.