Brooke Shields

Actress

72 Quotes

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

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.

I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'

The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

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.

The truth is, I like my body more when it's thinner. I have a range of jeans, and I'm happier in the smaller ones. But I don't have the same drive to get into those jeans. I'm not going to change my day to get there, whereas I used to.

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.

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

Everybody says, 'When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.' But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it.

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Saya sangat bersikukuh bahwa menjadi orang tua yang sangat baik tidak berarti Anda harus berada di sana 24/7. Saya menemukan bahwa saya tidak pernah tidak memikirkan di mana mereka berada, tetapi bukannya membuat saya stres, saya merasa terhibur karena mengetahui bahwa saya benar-benar mengetahui jadwal mereka, dan mereka bersama seseorang yang saya percayai.

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.

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.

I love getting baths and going to the Korean spas and getting pummeled and scrubbed, and its so hot in the sauna you can't even stand it. I have to do things in a pretty extreme way to calm down. So a Swedish massage is not going to do it! I need to know that they're in there with their thumbs and moving stuff around.

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.

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

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

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

I could never, ever have an abortion.

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