Candice Bergen
Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergenis an American actress and former fashion model. She won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her ten seasons as the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown. She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over, and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth9 May 1946
CityBeverly Hills, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves.
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.
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 traveled and read a lot, but I didn't have any real desire to work, though I harbored the knowledge I should get off my butt and back to work.
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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.
I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
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.
When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?