Demi Moore Explains Why She Doesn’t Aspire to Be ‘Perfect’

Demi Moore explained how life-changing advice helped her let go of striving for perfection

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• The actress also said she believes in challenging the societal norms around gender and aging

• Moore spoke during a recent Power Talks panel discussion hosted by Kérastase in Los Angeles on March 3

Demi Mooreopened up about why she doesn't aspire to perfection.

Moore discussed her candid thoughts during a Power Talks panel discussion hosted by Kérastase at NYA Studios in Los Angeles on March 3. During the conversation, the actress said that she used to strive to be "perfect," but her perspective shifted after she received some life-changing wisdom.

"I had somebody say something so interesting aboutbeing perfect, because I certainly have been trapped by trying to be perfect," Moore, 63, said.

"[They] said, 'Do you know anyone that's perfect?' And I said, 'No.' [They said], 'Do you know anything that's perfect?' I said, 'No, I don't know anything that's perfect.' And he said, 'Well, why would you want to be no one and nothing?' "

The Substancestar also said that she tries not to limit herself based on arbitrary societal rules around gender and aging.

"I remember being told, 'Well … when you get to be a certain age, you should cut your hair, youshouldn't have long hair.' And it didn't make sense to me of why that was some collective rule that existed," she explained.

"And I felt like, 'Well, who says that that's how it has to be? Why shouldn't you have it however you feel the most beautiful, the most comfortable, the most confident? So ... I let my hair grow, and I am quite attached to it," she added.

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Moore went on to say that she firmly believes that getting older doesn't mean you have to stop changing.

"I feel like the greatest gift that I can give my children — the greatest gift that I can give myself — is to work on myself to become better every day," she said.

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"If I wake upin gratitude, then I can step into that day already from a space of openness and possibility," she added.

"And I mean, in truth, I always say to my children that the only thing that we can truly count on, the only true constant is change. And so, we can either flow with it or we can resist it and be limited by it. And so, I would much rather be in the flow," theLandmanactresscontinued.

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"And I want to know at the end of my life that I've done everything possible to really step into the fullness of who I am. And I don't think when we're in our early days that we know who that is. And I can say sitting here at 63, that I'm still in discovery," she added.

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Why these 3 Oscar winners turned down their Academy Awards

Winning anOscar is considered the biggest honoran actor, writer, producer or director can receive. Why would anyone turn that down?

And yet three people in the history of the awards have done just that. The reasons vary: Some wanted to draw attention to a cause, others felt stronglythe annual glamour festwas an embarrassment to the profession.

The Oscarsgot their start back in 1929at a rather sedate hotel dinner for 270 stars and Hollywood denizens. The next year, the ceremony was broadcast on radio. From there, the race was on.

The awards showsoon picked up a catchy nickname, and quickly became the industry'sne plus ultraevent broadcast around the world. Last year,19.7 million people tuned into seeAdrien Brody("The Brutalist") andMikey Madison("Anora") happily make the walk to the stage to accept the coveted trophy.

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Before the 98th Academy Awards kick off on Sunday, March 15, let's take a trip down memory lane to relive classic moments of old Hollywood at Oscars past, starting with Audrey Hepburn and her best actress Oscar for "Roman Holiday" in 1953.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Best actor winner Marlon Brando backstage with his first Oscar in 1955 for "On the Waterfront."

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Best actress winner Grace Kelly (for "The Country Girl") onstage with Oscars host Bob Hope in 1955.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Grace Kelly holds up her Oscar for "The Country Girl" with presenter William Holden backstage in 1955.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Marlon Brando, left, celebrates his Oscar win in 1955 with host Bob Hope.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Best actor winner Sidney Poitier ("Lilies of the Field") and presenter Anne Bancroft chat backstage in 1964.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Julie Andrews, best actress for "Mary Poppins," and Rex Harrison, best actor for "My Fair Lady," display their Oscars backstage in 1965.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Julie Andrews arriving at the 1965 Academy Awards ceremony.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Anne Bancroft accepted best actress on behalf of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" star Elizabeth Taylor from presenter Lee Marvin backstage at the awards in 1967. Taylor skipped the ceremony because she believed husband Richard Burton would lose.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Nominee Faye Dunaway and Jerry Schatzberg arriving at the 40th Academy Awards ceremony in 1968.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Diahann Carroll and Burt Lancaster onstage at the Oscars in 1969.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Elliott Gould with wife Barbra Streisand at the Oscars in 1969.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Barbra Streisand won best actress in 1969 for "Funny Girl."

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Desi Arnaz Jr. (second from left), Jack Nicholson and Liza Minnelli at the Board of Governors Ball in 1972.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Best actor Gene Hackman ("The French Connection") and best actress Jane Fonda ("Klute") pose with their Oscars backstage in 1972.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Presenters Raquel Welch and Gene Hackman congratulate Liza Minnelli on winning best actress for "Cabaret" in 1973.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> A trio of Oscar winners celebrate backstage in 1973: Producer Albert S. Ruddy (from left) for best picture ("The Godfather"), Liza Minnelli ("Cabaret") for best actress and Joel Grey ("Cabaret") for best supporting actor.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Jack Nicholson dons his shades and hoists his best actor Oscar (for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") in 1976.

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Oscars glamour through the years with Audrey Hepburn, Barbra Streisand

Before the 98thAcademy Awardskick off onSunday, March 15, let's take a trip down memory lane to relive classic moments of old Hollywood at Oscars past, starting with Audrey Hepburn and her best actress Oscar for "Roman Holiday" in 1953.

While a number of famous stars have elected to skip the ceremony, despite numerous nominations and wins (Katharine HepburnandWoody Allencome to mind), only a trio so far have actively snubbed Oscar.

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Dudley Nichols

Who is Dudley Nichols?In his day, a fairly big deal, a screenwriter who eventually becamepresident of the powerful Writers Guild of America. So what's his Oscar story?

Nichols penned thescreenplay for "The Informer,"a book-based drama centered on Ireland's 1922 War of Independence and a traitor within its ranks. The movie was a hit at the box office and a stout contender at the 1936 Academy Awards, going head to head with "Mutiny on the Bounty" across six major categories. While "Mutiny" tookbest picture, "The Informer" won best actor, director, score and screenplay for Nichols.

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Nichols decided to decline his award because Hollywood workers were pushing to unionize. The industry hadorganized in the wake of the Great Depressionof the early 1930s in an effort to secure better pay. He finally did accept his award in 1938 with the formation of the then-named Screen Writers Guild, which eventually morphed into the WGA.

George C. Scott

Actor George C. Scott turned in a towering, glowering performance as World War II general George S. Patton in 1970's "Patton," which won Scott best actor and signaled the arrival of a hot new Hollywood talent in best screenwriter winner Francis Ford Coppola.

But Scott was a no-show at the awards a year later. In fact, when he heard of his nomination for best actor,Scott sent a telegram to the Academysaying he had no intention of accepting the award if he won, and in fact would prefer not to be nominated at all. Why? Scott didn't like the idea of being in competition with fellow actors, but what's more, he held little regard for movies, which he felt were beneath the craft of acting in plays.

"Film is not an actor's medium,"Scott told Time magazine before that year's awards, in a blitz of publicity that caused Academy members to take sides: The old guard were furious, while young actors admired his principles. "You shoot scenes in order of convenience, not the way they come in the script, and that's detrimental to a fully developed performance."

Where is his Oscar? History is unclear, but one of the movie's seven Oscars now rests at the library of the Virginia Military Institute, which educated Patton. Thebest picture statue was donated by "Patton" producer Frank McCarthy, a graduate of the institute.

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando was a once-in-a-generation actor who literally re-wrote the acting book with his powerful Method performances on both stage and screen. His 1973 best actor win was all but expected given the tremendous success of1972's "The Godfather,"in which Brando played Don Vito Corleone.

Interestingly, Brando had been out of favor with the Hollywood system by the early 1970s, after a series of movies that ran over budget and failed to score big at the box office. Hewas considered a high-risk hire, and "Godfather" director Coppola had to fight to cast Brando.

So perhaps it wasn't a surprise when instead of accepting the award, he stunned the well-heeled crowd by sending inNative American actress Sacheen Littlefeatherto refuse the Oscar proffered by Roger Moore. Instead, she gave a statement (abridging a 15-page speechBrando had written for the occasion) in support of Brando's latest political cause: the plight of Native Americans, specifically the occupation of a town called Wounded Knee.

No one knowswhere that famous Oscar is now.

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Jennifer Lopez Says She Was ‘About to Give Up on It All’ After Marc Anthony Split, Which Marked Her 3rd Divorce

Jennifer Lopez admitted she was "about to give up on it all" following her 2014 divorce from Marc Anthony while speaking onstage at her Up All Night Las Vegas residency on March 6

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• "It was actually a really tough time, I was really about to give up on it all," she told the residency audience

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Jennifer Lopezadmitted she was "about to give up on it all" following her2014 divorcefromMarc Anthony.

While speaking onstage at her Up All Night Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Friday, March 6, the "On the Floor" singer, 56, explained that the months following her split from her third husband was "actually a really tough time."

"I was really about to give up on it all," Lopez, who shares18-year-old twins Max and Emmewith Anthony, 57, continued into the microphone, as seen in videos shared tosocial media. "I mean, I was a single mom with two 3-year-old twins."

But amid the difficult times, theKiss of the Spider Womanstar received one piece of advice from one of her mentors, the late author Louise Hay, that she still carries with her to this day.

"She said to me, 'Jennifer, you're a dancer, right?' " Lopez recalled. "I said, 'Yes, I am.' And she said, 'When you're learning a dance and you get the steps wrong, what do you do?' I said, 'I just keep going until I get the steps right.' And she said, 'That's right Jennifer. Always keep dancing.' "

"And I wish the same for each and every one of you, that no matter what life throws at you, that you dance and you dance and you dance," she added while pointing to the crowd. "Again and again and again."

Lopezshared similar words of wisdomduring the second night of her Up All Night residency in December, adding that she "really started getting good at [dancing]" after her third divorce at a time when her life "was a mess."

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Despite the hardships that came from her and Anthony's split, Lopez toldSunday TodayhostWillie Geistin December 2018 that Anthony "really helped me with my confidence" during their seven years of marriage.

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"While I was married to Marc, he really helped me with my confidence, and he saw where I suffered," she said at the time, going on to remember him constantly insisting, "You're a great singer. Don't ever let anybody tell you you're not a great singer."

"I respected him so much because I consider him one of the best singers of all time," she continued.

After collaborating with Anthony for her Spanish-language albumPor Primera Vezyears after their split, Lopez told Spotify's¡Viva Latino!podcast in November 2017 that the experience "actually repaired certain parts of our relationship that had been fractured from our marriage and our divorce and it made us friends again."

"Because when we first started working together, it's how we met… we met working," she added. "And so we remembered that, like, oh right, we connect on this level of music."

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BTO's 1974 No. 1 Classic Rock Hit Started Out as a Joke

In 1974, Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) scored a massive hit with the song"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet."The Canadian rock band hit No. 1 on theBillboard Hot 100onNovember9, 1974, with the song from their third album,Not Fragile.

But "You  Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" almost didn't happen. The song, written by lead guitarist and vocalistRandy Bachman, was originally a "throwaway," and there was an insidejoketo its backstory. While recording the song, Bachman stuttered as he sang the words "baby" and "nothing" in the chorus. The tongue-tied lyrics were part of a private joke aimed at Bachman's brother and band manager, Gary, who had a speech impediment when he was a kid.

"Growing up, I was the oldest brother of four boys," Bachman explained toGuitar Playerin an interview. "We teased each other all the time. So I wanted to make it an inside joke with them. I said, 'I think I'm gonna stutter over this and sing anything I can think of.' I figured I'd mix one copy and send it off to my brothers. It's the ultimate tease, because even though we were grown up and in our 30s, we were still pulling rank on each other."

Bachman told the outlet that he never expected to include the song on theNot Fragilealbum. That changed when aMercuryRecords A&R vice president asked for a suitable follow-up to BTO's previous radio hits "Let It Ride" and "Takin' Care of Business."

A sound engineer suggested to Bachman that he pull out the "work track," which was "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet." The record executive loved the song, so Bachman agreed to re-record it for the album without the stuttering. But Mercury Records didn't like the revamped version of the song and insisted that the original version be used.

Bachman called the unexpected hit a 'freak' thing

Bachman toldUltimate Classic Rockthat "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" narrowly missed making it onto theNot Fragilealbum because it was a "throwaway" instrumental that he jokingly added lyrics to. His plan had always been to mix one version of the song, which featured him stuttering over the lyrics, and send it to his brother as a joke.

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"Then the engineer said, 'Play him the work track,'  so we played him 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet,' which was the work track, and he said, 'I love it. Put it on the album the way it is!'" Bachman explained. "So it was the first BTO album to have nine songs. It had the work track put on it with me stuttering on it, and it became a hit single. So, it was like a complete freak, weird thing to happen."

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BTO's song has actually helped people

While the song started as a playful brotherly joke, "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" caught the attention ofThe Stuttering Foundation. The organization named BTO's song the top stuttering song of all time, and it beat out some tough competition, including The Who's "My Generation" andDavid Bowie's"Changes" for the honor.

The Stuttering Foundation noted that  BTO's song was chosen because it was "the only such song with stuttering vocals that was about a real person who stuttered."

"The backstory underscores the power of speech therapy," the organization added. "Gary Bachman would later overcome his stuttering through speech therapy and embark on a highly successful career in real estate, becoming one of the top realtors in Winnipeg and owning his own agency for over 30 years."

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In 1974, Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) scored a massive hit with the song"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet."The...

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