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.

— Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields Quotes

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

— Brooke Shields

Happiness Motivational for Women Happy Friday Being Happy Joy

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

— Brooke Shields

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

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

— Brooke Shields

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

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

— Brooke Shields

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

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

— Brooke Shields

You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart.

— Brooke Shields

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

— Brooke Shields

If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?

— Brooke Shields

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

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.

— Brooke Shields

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

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

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

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

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

— Brooke Shields

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

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.

— Brooke Shields

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