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Brooke Shields quotes

Ocupation: Actress

Life: b. May 31, 1965

Birthday: May 31

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Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Inspirational, Being Happy, Wise, Being Happy With Life

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I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Crafts

Quotation Brooke Shields The thing I m the most proud of in my Quotes

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

Topics: World, Welcome, Feels

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Honesty, Compassion, Quality, Bluntness

~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we are responsible to anybody but our kids and ourselves.~

Topics: Girl, Kids, Parenting, Overbearing

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

Topics: Daughter, Mother, Thinking

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

Topics: People, Abortion, Birth Control

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

Topics: Mother, Money, Three, Naive

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

source: - Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981

Topics: Funny, Life, Witty, Really Stupid, Very Stupid

What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.

Topics: Mean Girls, Mom, Home

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

Topics: Black, Mental Illness, Holes, Happy Again

I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.

source: - "Brooke Shields on Beauty, Marriage, And Self-Esteem". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 01, 2001.

Topics: Mom, Chinese, Schedules, Chinese Food, Hyper

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mirrors, Opposites, Weakness

Guys think that if a girl is pretty, she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with, I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or, I've had to ask them.

Topics: Girl, Thinking, Guy

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. Im pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Topics: Moving, Character, Adversity

People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Thinking, People, Substance

I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?

Topics: Mother, Montana, Hannah Montana

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

Topics: Inspiring, Daughter, Mother

You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.

Topics: Nice, Smart

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

Topics: New York, Home, School

My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.

Topics: Fun, Years, Filled, Catalogues

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

Topics: Mother, Looks, Wanted

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

Topics: Dream, Issues, Might, Ivf

If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?

Topics: Jeans, Embarrassed

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

Topics: Artist, Innocence, Theme, Innocence And Experience

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

source: - "Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

Topics: Self, Humour, Defence, Defence Mechanism, Self Defence

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

Topics: Confidence, Eight, Scary

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Topics: Pain, Father, Stress, Devastated

It's nice, it gives you a feeling of security so that if something breaks we know we can always call a guy over and he'll bring a drill or something.

Topics: Stupid, Nice, Giving, Drills

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Topics: Misery

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

Topics: Smile, Beautiful, Girl, Beautiful Baby, Natal

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

Topics: Perspective, Priorities, Understanding, Postpartum, Postpartum Depression

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

Topics: Mom, Healing, Feelings, Healing Process, New Mom

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

Topics: Mom, New York, Uncles, Aunts And Uncles

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

Topics: Community, Broadway

I could never, ever have an abortion.

Topics: Abortion

Have faith in your own thoughts.

Topics: Have Faith

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

Topics: Class, Knowing, Pleasure, Princeton

We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Struggle, Mean, Successful

Two eggs do not an omelette make

Topics: Eggs, Two

It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Successful, Might, Easy

I have never been skinny. The thing is, I was in an industry where being athletic was not celebrated. I have friends who are supermodels, and I never had that body. I've never been asked to walk in a Versace show. I was doing the covers of the magazines while they were cruising the clothes down the runway, and then they'd bring me the clothes and I'd have to photograph them.

Topics: Supermodel, Versace

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Healthy Life

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