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.

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.