Demi Moore

Birthday: 11 November 1962, Roswell, New Mexico, USA

Birth Name: Demi Gene Guynes

Height: 165 cm

Demi Moore was born on November 11, 1962, in Roswell, New Mexico. Her father, Charles Foster Harmon, Sr., left her mother, Virginia Beverly (King), before Demi was born. Her stepfather, Danny Guynes, did not add much stability to her life, either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times. The parents kept on drinking, arguing and beating, until Guynes finally committed suicide. Demi quit school at age 16 to work as a pin-up-girl. At 18, she married rock musician Freddy Moore; the marriage lasted four years. At 19, she became a regular on the soap opera General Hospital (1963) (1982-1983). From the first salaries, she started partying and sniffing cocaine. That lasted more than three years, until director Joel Schumacher threatened to fire her from the set of St. Elmo's Fire (1985) when she turned up high. She got a withdrawal treatment and returned clean within a week... and stayed clean. With determination and a skill for publicity stunts, like the nude appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair while pregnant, she made her way to fame. Thanks to the huge commercial success of Ghost (1990) and the controversial pictures Indecent Proposal (1993) and Disclosure (1994), she became Hollywood's most sought-after and most expensive actress.In 2009, Demi Moore and spouse Ashton Kutcher launched The Demi and Ashton Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization directed towards fighting child sexual slavery. Its first campaign in "Real Men Don't Buy Girls". On April 23, 2011, Demi and Ashton appeared together for their first on-air interview on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight (2011) to promote their foundation and start the work towards ending child sexual slavery. The foundation's website enables people to educate themselves, show support and take action or make a donation. They first got involved in the issue in 2008 and that a great deal of the early work just involved starting discussions, raising awareness and creating urgency. Show less «

[on plastic surgery] It's completely false, I've never had it done. It's a way to combat your neuros...Show more »

[on plastic surgery] It's completely false, I've never had it done. It's a way to combat your neurosis. The scalpel won't make you happy. For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look thirty. Show less «

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

[on About Last Night... (1986)] Some of the critics didn't like the happy ending. But there was no w...Show more »

[on About Last Night... (1986)] Some of the critics didn't like the happy ending. But there was no way you could have any other ending on that movie. After building up compassion for the characters, to just throw it away with an unhappy ending would have been stupid. Show less «

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure...Show more »

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. Show less «

Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things c...Show more »

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

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

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive. Show less «

On the changes made to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" (she starred in the adaptation): I...Show more »

On the changes made to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" (she starred in the adaptation): In truth, not very many people have read the book...the ultimate message of "Hester Prynne" would have been lost if we'd stayed with the original ending. Show less «

[1985, on being dubbed a member of the "Brat Pack"] I hate it! I find it embarrassing, hateful and d...Show more »

[1985, on being dubbed a member of the "Brat Pack"] I hate it! I find it embarrassing, hateful and demeaning. Show less «

I have no obligation to be politically correct.

[at a briefing on Domestic Sex Trafficking in Washington, D.C., 5/4/10] As long as one person is ens...Show more »

[at a briefing on Domestic Sex Trafficking in Washington, D.C., 5/4/10] As long as one person is enslaved, we are all enslaved. As long as we continue to allow these young women to be criminalized, the message we're putting out is that women and girls can be bought ... It's time that we bring the dirty little secret out into the open. Show less «

I don't think anyone could imagine it, but with Redford, all of a sudden, I was very shy and more se...Show more »

I don't think anyone could imagine it, but with Redford, all of a sudden, I was very shy and more self-conscious. This was THE Robert Redford and he's a kind of shy and reserved guy. Show less «

I'm sure there are people who think I'm a bitch, but all I do is strive for perfection. I expect oth...Show more »

I'm sure there are people who think I'm a bitch, but all I do is strive for perfection. I expect others to work as hard as me, but I'm not demanding to an unreasonable point. Show less «

[on working with Michael Caine in Flawless (2007)] Fantastic. I have to say, I've certainly grown in...Show more »

[on working with Michael Caine in Flawless (2007)] Fantastic. I have to say, I've certainly grown in having a greater appreciation for who he is. I realized actually, when I was 20 when I did the film (Blame It on Rio (1984)) playing his daughter, we didn't have the resource to be able to watch his films like we have today. Young actors now can go back and find everything. For me to have really been that familiar, I would've had to go to those arthouses and really waited to get that little sliver. So now I really have a greater appreciation, which hopefully we do as we get older anyway. Show less «

I'm sure there was a huge boon in pottery classes that they hadn't seen since macrame, Birkenstocks,...Show more »

I'm sure there was a huge boon in pottery classes that they hadn't seen since macrame, Birkenstocks, and hairy legs were in fashion! Show less «

[on her approach to acting] It's 100 percent instinct. I haven't had years of learning in acting cla...Show more »

[on her approach to acting] It's 100 percent instinct. I haven't had years of learning in acting class. It just didn't go that way for me. Not because I ever felt I was so wonderful I didn't need it. I'm sure I could use plenty of guidance. Actually, I was too insecure to want to take that path. I always just felt that if I got in a class and somebody said, 'Boy, you're really not good, and maybe you should consider something else,' I would have had to, and I thought that if I could fake it long enough maybe I could figure it out. There's that old saying, 'Fake it until you make it,' and I think I might have been skating on that thin ice for a while in the hope nobody would find me out. I never even really had the ability to put myself in that kind of learning situation until right before I did Ghost (1990), when I worked in New York with a teacher named Harold Guskin. I enjoyed it, but being in a class would probably still be intimidating for me. Show less «

[to Susan Boyle] You have nothing to lose - just keep sharing your light.

I used to say that I attended 48 schools, but I think it's something over 30. I attended six high sc...Show more »

I used to say that I attended 48 schools, but I think it's something over 30. I attended six high schools, and I always had at least two schools in every grade. Sometimes I made three moves in one grade. My shortest stay was two months. Show less «

I think we all want the same things. We all want to feel loved, and feel a part of something, but we...Show more »

I think we all want the same things. We all want to feel loved, and feel a part of something, but we all have self-doubt no matter where we came from. Show less «

I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else.

There was a point in my career that I was being encouraged to do a film for what felt like the wrong...Show more »

There was a point in my career that I was being encouraged to do a film for what felt like the wrong reasons, which were for monetary reasons. But I had an overwhelming sense of intuition that it wasn't right, that it felt unsafe, that there were elements that really just were wrong. And what's interesting is, I didn't follow my intuition. I allowed myself to be persuaded. And the biggest part of why that was created is that I didn't have enough self-confidence or trust in my own information. Show less «

[presenting Ghost (1990) at the ArcLight Hollywood, April 2013] It's something that touches people's...Show more »

[presenting Ghost (1990) at the ArcLight Hollywood, April 2013] It's something that touches people's heart, it transcends and has comforted people's soul in great loss and it has instilled a sense of hope and magic that those we love are always still with us. I'm truly grateful to have been part of this film, and I'm honored to be sharing with you tonight. I thank AFI and Target for bringing together this magical night for you to see it on the big screen. Show less «

The press is a big machine that runs of its own will, and to fight against it would take too much of...Show more »

The press is a big machine that runs of its own will, and to fight against it would take too much of my focus and my energy. All I can really do is try to find the safest way I can to use the press for positive things - promoting what I love, the movies I make. The rest of it, even though sometimes it hurts, sometimes it's disappointing, sometimes it's unjust, I just don't want to get caught up in it. I've seen what the press does to other stars, and I know I'm no exception. Everybody has their day. Sometimes it's a good time for you in the press, sometimes it's just your turn to get hit. There seems to be no rhyme or reason, no matter what you're doing or how hard you're working. Except you do see that sometimes it comes like the tide - if it's been a really good time for you, the press starts looking for reasons to bring you down, and if you're really down it seems as if they start to jump on a bandwagon so they can be the creators and bring you back. So I just try to ride the wave. Show less «

[2005] In his own way, Ashton is romantic. We were apart for awhile, and he phoned me and said he'd ...Show more »

[2005] In his own way, Ashton is romantic. We were apart for awhile, and he phoned me and said he'd shaved his leg. One leg. Because then at night, he said, it's like sleeping with a woman when he rubs against himself. Show less «

[on women in combat] If there are women, whatever that percentage might be - two percent, five perce...Show more »

[on women in combat] If there are women, whatever that percentage might be - two percent, five percent - if they have the desire, if they have the ability to match up on an equal standard, then I think we want them there, because that just means somebody's found what they're supposed to do in their lifetime that they're good at. And if they have the passion to create that kind of commitment to be there, why shouldn't they be? Show less «

I do take a stand about how a scene should be played. I have a passion for my work, and that sometim...Show more »

I do take a stand about how a scene should be played. I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts. Show less «

Once you've tasted a bit of success, it's more challenging. We have to continue to be willing to tak...Show more »

Once you've tasted a bit of success, it's more challenging. We have to continue to be willing to take a risk so that we don't get too safe. Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. So the better place to keep yourself in is out of your comfort zone, willing to try even at the risk of failing. And that's not natural to me at all. In fact, it's completely unnatural. Show less «

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

I didn't want to work and drag my kids with me while they were trying to cross this huge transition....Show more »

I didn't want to work and drag my kids with me while they were trying to cross this huge transition. I wanted them to become as stable and as confident as possible. There are people who go through this and don't have the financial means, but I did. It wasn't a risk; it was the right thing to do. Show less «

[on 1950s anti-abortion laws depicted in her film, If These Walls Could Talk (1996)] The shame and d...Show more »

[on 1950s anti-abortion laws depicted in her film, If These Walls Could Talk (1996)] The shame and degradation that these women faced - that is really what is criminal. Show less «

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