Demi Moore Quotations

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.

I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.

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

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

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

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me.

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

I want things to be the best they can be I want greatness.

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

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

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 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.'

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

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.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

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

'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

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

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

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

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

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

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

I think of myself as still being about five.

I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else.

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

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

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

I said I would get better with each baby, and I have.

I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.

I think of myself as still being about five. Maybe that's why my Twitter picture is of me at five. That's how I feel. I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else. I'm just still trying to figure it all out about myself.

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.

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.

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

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. That's served in the past to create an image of me where I'm always frowning or looking angry.

I want to play many different characters.

Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That was within the first couple of weeks of our relationship, before he had met the girls. they are my priority and I've always be sensitive to their feelings, but as the parent you can't allow your children to dictate what's right for you.

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...

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can.

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...

The scalpel won't make you happy.

Who lack self-esteem are lost. I was determined never to relinquish my...

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!

The new Ann Taylor is for modern women who want to take on the world in style.

Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love.

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?

There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things.

You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings.

I feel sexy because I feel loved. That's what sexy is-it's feeling good from the inside. 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.

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.

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.

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.

Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.

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

I feel that we are and that we don't need something formal, so to do so isn't a big deal one way or another.

For me, it's the way he looked in conjunction with the fact that he's so intelligent. That's the optimum.

It's been a challenging few years, being the age I am, with so much focus now on how I look. Almost to the point where I felt like, well, they don't know what to do with me. I am flawed. And I'm not 20. Not 30. But I'm certainly different from what most people feel someone in her 40s should be.

not through Sean Combs, as everyone said, but through a mutual friend, Sara Foster, an actress who's known Ashton from the day he arrived in Los Angeles.

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.