“Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.”
― Brooke Shields
“Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I’m 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
“Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.”
― Brooke Shields
“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.”
― Brooke Shields
“As I’m getting older, I’m enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I’ve deserved them.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“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
“The thing I’m the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I’m fabulous.”
― Brooke Shields
“I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I’ve known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“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.”
― Brooke Shields
“The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“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
“I don’t ever feel like I have it all together.”
― Brooke Shields
“I always feel like the odd mom out, because 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 have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.”
― Brooke Shields
“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.”
― Brooke Shields
“My husband perpetually makes fun of me about my creams and my jars and potions and lotions, but its simpler than anyone makes it: clean, tone, keep yourself moisturized. The rest is internal: Protect yourself from the sun and drink water.”
― Brooke Shields
“Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, ‘Oh, that’s it. All I have to do is fall in love.’ You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don’t necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“You don’t necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.”
― Brooke Shields
“The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.”
― Brooke Shields
“’Suddenly Susan’ is my life.”
― Brooke Shields
“My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander’s and Bloomingdale’s.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“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
“I’m just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it’s so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“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
“I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.”
― Brooke Shields
“Have faith in your own thoughts.”
― Brooke Shields
“Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“I could never, ever have an abortion.”
― Brooke Shields
“People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.”
― Brooke Shields
“I’ve never been naturally fashion conscious. I’m the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.”
― Brooke Shields
“I’m a hands-on mum and I’m lucky to be able to be that. I can remember the things my mum used to do with me and that time together is so important.”
― Brooke Shields
“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
“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
“I have always liked lionesses. Female lions have always seemed like the best. They were really strong and took care of their babies and are beautiful.”
― Brooke Shields
“I am a city girl I think, at heart.”
― Brooke Shields
“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.”
― Brooke Shields
“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.”
― Brooke Shields
“From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.”
― Brooke Shields
“If my girls are rude, it’s over. There is no place in the world for it.”
― Brooke Shields
“I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents – just because it’s my nature to be such a perfectionist – that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years – it’s not Zen, believe me, I’m not at all Zen – but I’m so appreciative of even the chaos.”
― Brooke Shields
“I’m so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I’m never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I’m completely aware of their schedule, and they’re with someone I trust.”
― Brooke Shields
“I don’t like to leave my children for long periods of time. It’s made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.”
― Brooke Shields
“I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like ‘See, I’m not a nerd. Look, I’m in ‘Vogue.’”
― Brooke Shields
“I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.”
― Brooke Shields
“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.’”
― Brooke Shields
“What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living – and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.”
― Brooke Shields
“The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn’t feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you’ll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.”
― Brooke Shields
“I think once you have children, you just don’t have the same kind of freedom to pick up and go. But then, I sort of think, how often did I really do it? How spontaneous was I really? Part of what I think I miss is this fantasy of my wild days, but they never existed!”
― Brooke Shields
“I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, ‘Gosh, she’s okay.’ I handled a lot, and I’m still here.”
― Brooke Shields
“Depression is so smart – it uses all your references and patterns.”
― Brooke Shields
“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.”
― Brooke Shields
“I always sold other peoples’ fashions, so I wore jeans and t-shirts, and I put on what they needed to sell, and I’d sell it. So as far a nurturing my own style, it took me quite a long time to do it.”
― Brooke Shields
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