Quotes from Demi Moore

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

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

I don't like to take my clothes off.

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

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

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

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

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?'

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

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.

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.

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

I want to play many different characters.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love.

I want good work.

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

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.