A biography for Candice Bergenhasn’t been written yet.
“Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.”
“I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.”
“But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.”
“I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.”
“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.”
“I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.”
“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.”
“Glamorized... am I glamorous?”
“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 got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.”
“I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.”
“Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.”
“When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?”
“I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.”
“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.”
“Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?”