Top 40 Brooke Shields Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door.”

— Brooke Shields

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2. “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”

— Brooke Shields

3. “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

4. “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

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

— Brooke Shields

6. “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

7. “People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.”

— Brooke Shields

8. “Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.”

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9. “It’s okay to be successful and it’s also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.”

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

— Brooke Shields

11. “Two eggs do not an omelette make.”

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12. “We all struggle. I’m not saying any successful woman’s life is without struggle. But it doesn’t mean it has to be miserable.”

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

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14. “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

15. “The thing I’m the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I’m fabulous.”

— Brooke Shields

16. “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

17. “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

18. “If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?”

— Brooke Shields

19. “People say, ‘I love my wrinkles.’ I don’t love my wrinkles – come on!”

— Brooke Shields

20. “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.”

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21. “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

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

— Brooke Shields

23. “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

24. “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

25. “Have faith in your own thoughts.”

— Brooke Shields

26. “There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.”

— Brooke Shields

27. “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

28. “You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.”

— Brooke Shields

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

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30. “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.”

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

— Brooke Shields

32. “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

33. “High school basically continued with bouts of her getting drunk and then stopping for a day. There was not one major moment or birthday celebration during which she could remain sober. I learned how to plan my joy. I would front-load my birthdays with breakfast activities or plan to be with her for only the beginning of an event. Then I would go off to be with friends and know that that would be the last I would see of my mother’s real facial expressions.”

— Brooke Shields

34. “You don’t necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.”

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35. “I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.”

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36. “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

37. “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.”

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

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39. “I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.”

— Brooke Shields

40. “With regard to my mother, it felt like it was never enough. Nothing I said or did seemed correct or could make her stop getting drunk or feel deeper happiness. I felt helpless. Why wasn’t I enough to help her stop drinking?”

— Brooke Shields

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

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42. “My feelings about my mother and about our relationship are so confused that to write them down with clarity would mean I had them all figured out, which I do not. – Brooke Shields’s diary.”

— Brooke Shields

43. “My unhappiness was rooted in my mother’s inability to stop drinking.”

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44. “I believed for a long time that I could affect my mother’s drinking. Like many children of alcoholics, I thought if I asked a certain way, or made some type of deal with my mother where I promised something, it would be compelling enough to make her stop.”

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45. “To me, being spooned has always been an instant sleeping pill. This closeness with my mom gave me the utmost feeling of comfort and safety.”

— Brooke Shields