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

— Candice Bergen

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

— Candice Bergen

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.

— Candice Bergen

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

— Candice Bergen

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.

— Candice Bergen

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

— Candice Bergen

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

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

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

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

— Candice Bergen