Candice Bergen

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out. ”

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance. ”

Glamorized... am I glamorous? ”

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home. ”

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 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. ”

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

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 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. ”