Candice Bergen

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

“Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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