Demi Moore Reveals the Comment ‘Happy Days’ Creator Made to Her as a Teen: ‘Completely Changed My Life’

A few words of encouragement can be enough to last a lifetime — just ask Demi Moore.

She says her life changed thanks to a conversation with Happy Days creator Garry Marshall when she was just 14.

“I remember I was 14, and I was living here in California, and I was invited to go see a taping of the TV show Happy Days.  And I was so excited to be there,” the Substance star, 63, revealed during a Power Talk panel at Kerastase’s global Chronologiste launch on Tuesday March 3.

“The creator of that show was a man named Garry Marshall, and I don’t know what I was doing or what I was saying — and I did talk to him about this many years later — but he turned to me, and he said, ‘If you could bottle that energy, you could do something with it,’ ” she added, as reported by the Daily Mail on Sunday, March 8.

The comment struck a deep chord with the future star. Even as a teenager, she says she instinctively understood the message.

“That moment, he infused in me a level of, I don’t want to say confidence, but a specificity of direction that I needed so desperately; it was able to take something and contain it and direct it towards what I ended up doing for my career,” Moore, who had an uncredited role in Marshall’s Young Doctors in Love in 1982, explained.

“I said to him many years later, ‘You said this thing to me and it completely changed my life,’ ” the Landman actress continued. “And he in fact didn’t remember the conversation at all, but it’s irrelevant because what is important that I took away from that is also knowing that we never know the seed we might plant for somebody else.”

The Hollywood mainstay, who also directed Pretty Woman, died in July 2016 after suffering a stroke.