Candice Bergen quotes

Candice Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model, widely recognized for her role as Murphy Brown in the television series of the same name. Her performances have earned her prestigious awards and critical acclaim throughout her career. She continues to inspire audiences with her talent and versatility in both film and television. Here are 30 of her quotes:

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

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

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

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

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

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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 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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