Candice Bergen famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Commitment #Boys #Thinking
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

#Beauty #Giving #Scary
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

#Book #Thinking #Quiet
Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
-- Candice Bergen

#Funny #Memorable #California
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
-- Candice Bergen

#Men #Independence #Domestic Violence
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.
-- Candice Bergen

#Caring #Thinking #People
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

#Running #Real #Risk
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
-- Candice Bergen

#Memories #Age #Firsts
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.
-- Candice Bergen

#Breathing #Sides #Actresses
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

#Blessing #Thinking #People
The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.
-- Candice Bergen

#Love #Beautiful #Parent
At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
-- Candice Bergen

#Age #Actresses #Vengeance
It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
-- Candice Bergen

#Impossible #Flats
I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.
-- Candice Bergen

#Dog #Believe #Animal
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
-- Candice Bergen

#Believe #I Believe #Monogamy
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
-- Candice Bergen

#Mom #Daughter #Mother
Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.
-- Candice Bergen

#Love #Life #Dream
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
-- Candice Bergen

#Blessed #Acceptance #Self
I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one
-- Candice Bergen

#Baby #Inspiration #Used
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
-- Candice Bergen

#Distance #Long #People
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!
-- Candice Bergen

#Women #Two #Religion
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

#Grateful #Offering #People
Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.
-- Candice Bergen

#Funny #Humor #Night
I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
-- Candice Bergen

#Comedy #Feels #Comfortable

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