Candice Bergen

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

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.

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

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

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.

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.

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

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

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

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.

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