Candice bergen quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

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

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

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.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

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.

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

I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.

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

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

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.

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

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

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