Brooke Shields famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Being Happy #Wise

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

#Crafts

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.
-- Brooke Shields

#World #Welcome #Feels

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

#Honesty #Compassion #Quality

~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.~
-- Brooke Shields

#Girl #Kids #Parenting

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

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Mother #Money #Three

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

#Funny #Life #Witty

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.
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Black #Mental Illness #Holes

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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Mom #Chinese #Schedules

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.
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Moving #Character #Adversity

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

#Thinking #People #Substance

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

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Inspiring #Daughter #Mother

You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Fun #Years #Filled

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.
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Dream #Issues #Might

If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Artist #Innocence #Theme

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

#Self #Humour #Defence

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

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Pain #Father #Stress

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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Stupid #Nice #Giving

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

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Smile #Beautiful #Girl

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

#Perspective #Priorities #Understanding

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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Mom #Healing #Feelings

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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Mom #New York #Uncles

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

#Community #Broadway

I could never, ever have an abortion.
-- Brooke Shields

#Abortion

Have faith in your own thoughts.
-- Brooke Shields

#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.
-- Brooke Shields

#Class #Knowing #Pleasure