Quotes from Candice Bergen

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

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

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

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

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

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

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.