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 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'd seen the show, and I'd read the reviews of the show, and I said, 'Oh! What I wouldn't give to work with those two guys.
Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves.
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 not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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.
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.
Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.
I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
Glamorized... am I glamorous?
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.