Candice Bergen > Quotes

“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.”
― Candice Bergen

“Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.”
― Candice Bergen

“men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick”
― Candice Bergen

“It takes a long time to become a person.”
― Candice Bergen, Knock Wood

“Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those that bring you somewhere unexpected, those that bring you far from where you started, and those that bring you back. But the most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.”
― Candice Bergen

“I revealed too much too soon. I was emotionally slutty.”
― Candice Bergen

“No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you’ll never get through it without your friends.”
― Candice Bergen

“Bit by bit, it comes over us that we shall never hear this laughter again, and that this one garden is forever locked against us, and at that moment begins our true mourning. For nothing in truth can replace that true companion. Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories. . . . It is idle having planted an acorn in the morning to expect that afternoon to sit by an oak, so life goes on. For years we plant the seed, we feel ourselves rich, and then comes other years when time does its work and our plantation is sparse. One by one, our comrades depart, deprive us of their shade.”
― Candice Bergen, A Fine Romance

“they abandoned their careers in a bid not to squander an instant with the child they almost never had.”
― Candice Bergen, A Fine Romance

“The next year was kindergarten. On Parents Night we filed in and sat on the little chairs. It was just after the United States had launched its war against Iraq, and the teacher began to describe the children's curriculum for the year, I raised my hand, ever the firebrand, and asked if she'd be teaching the kids about the Gulf War. There was a collective gasp as the other parents looked at me with horror. The teacher paled and said softly, "We're working on colors.”
― candice bergen, A Fine Romance

“As a mother, I am a backup singer in every way. There's never been a shred of competitiveness. I've always been thrilled whenever Chloe was front and center.”
― Candice Bergen, A Fine Romance

“Mike [Nichols] said:
Directing a movie is like sex. you never see anyone else doing it, so you're not sure you're doing it right... After the press screening of Murmurs of the Heart, Louis's mom said, "Louis, it brings back such memories!"...”
― Candice Bergen, A Fine Romance

“hundredth anniversary of filmmaking: the top forty-five”
― Candice Bergen, A Fine Romance

“It takes a long time to become a person. Longer than they tell you. Longer than I thought. I am grateful for my past, it has given me the present. I want to do well by the future.”
― Candice Bergen, Knock Wood