Candice Bergen Quotes

• Hollywood is like Picasso’s bathroom.

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Funny

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actress

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Feel, Comfortable

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, People

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Remember, Tears

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Self

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Appreciated, Moment

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speech, Intelligent

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feel, Comfortable

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Independence

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Relationships

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Remember

• 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

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Women, Hollywood

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Acceptance, Blessed

• Were women meant to do everything – work and have babies?

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realize, Matter

• 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

  Topics in Commitment

  Tags in Financial, Need, Relationships, Dating

Candice Bergen (30)

Birth:	9th May, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Model

About

Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown, for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as Best Actress in a TV Comedy. She is also well known for her role on the legal comedy-drama Boston Legal as Shirley Schmidt. She was nominated twice for an Emmy and once for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award respectively for that role.

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