Candice Bergen Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Beauty, Expectations

• 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.

  Candice Bergen

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

  Candice Bergen

• Glamorized… am I glamorous?

  Candice Bergen

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

  Candice Bergen

• But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they’re seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.

  Candice Bergen

• But it was hard to leave because the show’s been so important in our lives.

  Candice Bergen

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

  Candice Bergen

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

  Candice Bergen

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Mom

• 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

  Topics in Beauty

Candice Bergen (30)

Birth:	9th May, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Model

About

Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown, for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as Best Actress in a TV Comedy. She is also well known for her role on the legal comedy-drama Boston Legal as Shirley Schmidt. She was nominated twice for an Emmy and once for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award respectively for that role.

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