Demi Moore Quotes

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

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

I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.

I want to play many different characters.

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

It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places...Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones.

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

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

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.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

I think of myself as still being about five.

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive way, looking at how I measure up, which usually was never enough. I never, never was as good as someone else.

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

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

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

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

People can't bear the idea that I could be sexual and provocative, and still be a nice person with a nice family and a nice husband, and have a career that could work, and be paid a certain amount of money.

Real men don't buy girls-they protect them. We're recruiting real men who have the courage to stand up against this issue.

Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters.

In my personal life I wasn't someone who cried easily, someone who was extremely vulnerable, you know, in that way that's constantly seeking out affirmation from other people. I've always been much more the person who took care of everyone else.

I truly believe you can't buy your way into genuine love. You can surely buy companionship, but I don't think [love] has a price tag on it.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, "Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice."

I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears.

I try to focus on the present, what I'm doing now. I feel like the best design I can have is an awareness of where I've come from so that I don't repeat myself. Luckily, my work provides me with a tremendous source of new opportunities.

The scalpel won't make you happy.

In a way, I feel that film roles haven't given me the opportunity to show I have a sense of humor.

There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to assimilate into whatever new surroundings I had and to become very comfortable with people quickly. I think that was one of the strongest contributing factors to my becoming an actor, because I constantly had to readjust, even reinvent. But at the same time, it also became very easy for me not to become attached to people, places, or things. I learned to enjoy people and places for the time I had, for the moment, to be in the moment, and move on.

I've never been one of those people who has an extremely high level of crisis. I just don't need all that emotional drama.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good.

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

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

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

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

I’m honored if I can inspire somebody else.

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

[on Emilio Estevez] Truly, my first love.

Talk about meeting your soul mate ... I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage - I had trunks.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

It takes a lot to motivate me to exercise but Physique 57 is the ideal workout, it's efficient, fun and targeted to get the results you didn't think were possible!

In the end the only thing that you can have on your side is time. The only way to gain time is by living it. And if I live expending my energy worrying about other people's perceptions, then I'm missing my moment.