Quotes from Candice Bergen

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

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

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.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.