Candice Bergen Quotes

• 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

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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.

  Candice Bergen

  Beauty, Giving, Scary

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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.

  Candice Bergen

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• 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

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

  Candice Bergen

  Memories, Age, Firsts

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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.

  Candice Bergen

  Running, Real, Risk

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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.

  Candice Bergen

  Home, Things In Life, People

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

  Candice Bergen

  Love, Beautiful, Parent

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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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  Blessing, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Breathing, Sides, Actresses

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• Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

  Candice Bergen

  Funny, Memorable, California

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

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  Love, Life, Dream

  Candice Bergen (2014). “Knock Wood”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Age, Actresses, Vengeance

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

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  Impossible, Flats

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

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  Dog, Believe, Animal

  "Life After 50: Adopt A Pet, Get Fit?" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2011.

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

  Candice Bergen

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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

  Candice Bergen

  Believe, I Believe, Monogamy

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

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  Blessed, Acceptance, Self

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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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  Grateful, Offering, People

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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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  Baby, Inspiration, Used

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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!

  Candice Bergen

  Women, Two, Religion

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

  Candice Bergen

  Distance, Long, People

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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.

  Candice Bergen

  Book, Thinking, Quiet Moments

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

  Candice Bergen

  Baby

  Candice Bergen (2011). “Knock Wood”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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

  Candice Bergen

  Funny, Humor, Night

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