Demi Moore Quotes Page 2

“I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.”

“Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.”

“Models, even male models – how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life.”

“No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face.”

“Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.”

“Part of the point of monogamy is the energy of somebody making the sacrifice or the choice for you, and that you thereby hold this special place that no one else can have. As soon as another person is brought in you are no longer being held in that sacred spot.”

“Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.”

“The scalpel won't make you happy.”

“The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.”

“The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.”

“There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.”

“There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.”

“There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.”

“Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.”

“When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do.”

“When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.”

“When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire.”

“You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.”

“You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.”

“From them, I learned that love was something you had to scramble to keep. It could be revoked at any minute, for reasons that you couldn’t understand, that you couldn’t control. The kind of love I grew up with was scary to need, and painful to feel. If I didn’t have that uneasy ache, that prickly anxiety around someone, how would I know it was love?”

“How does it feel to be whored by your mother for five hundred dollars?” It feels like you are an orphan.”

“I belong. Here. In myself. In this house. On this planet. I'm in my mid-50s now, I've outlived both of my parents, I know that what I walked through was a lot, especially coming from where I came from. The truth is, the only way out is in.”

“I got here because I chose men with the same qualities as my dad and my granddad, and I turned myself inside out trying to please them.”

“I have since come to understand that there is no such thing as someone “loving you enough” to be better. People can only be as good as they are, no matter how much they love you.”

“I know that sounds like the perfect life. But as I would soon find out, if you carry a well of shame and unresolved trauma inside of you, no amount of money, no measure of success or celebrity, can fill it.”

“I still remember the first time I saw steam billowing up from a manhole in Manhattan—it was like there was an underworld of fire just below the city’s surface, burning night and day.”

“I think we treat the people we love the way we believe, in our deepest hearts, that we deserve to be treated ourselves.”

“I wish I’d been taught ? by someone, somewhere ? about my body, what was possible in a sexual relationship, how to consider my own desires instead of seeing sex as degrading or something I owed someone.”

“I yelled “No!” because I knew what would come next: the ambulance, then the paparazzi, then TMZ announcing, “Demi Moore, rushed to the hospital on drugs!” And all of that happened, just like I knew it would. But something else happened that I didn’t expect. I decided to sit still—after a life of running—and face myself. I’d done a lot in fifty years, but I don’t know that I’d really experienced a lot, because I spent most of that time not quite there, afraid to be in myself, convinced I didn’t deserve the good and frantically trying to fix the bad”

“In Hollywood at that time ? and, unfortunately, still ? for some reason a man is worth almost double what a woman is.”