For the past almost 20 years, I’ve been coming more into my own, i don’t spend time with people I don’t want to spend time with anymore. I don’t spend time doing things I don’t want to do. I don’t make movies that don’t make me happy. Brooke Shields More Quotes by Brooke Shields More Quotes From Brooke Shields Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. Brooke Shields wise happy inspirational Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion. Brooke Shields quality honesty compassion I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole. Brooke Shields mental-illness holes black You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart. Brooke Shields smart nice 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 Have faith in your own thoughts. Brooke Shields have-faith faith Two eggs do not an omelette make Brooke Shields eggs two I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong? Brooke Shields hannah-montana montana mother You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented. Brooke Shields misery Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me. Brooke Shields defence humour self Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in. Brooke Shields welcome feels world ~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 parenting girl kids 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 abortion birth-control people 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 dinner chinese mom 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 money mother funny Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. Brooke Shields witty life funny 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 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 People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance. Brooke Shields substance people thinking 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 wanted looks
