Explore Quotes by Brooke Shields

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I could never, ever have an abortion.

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

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