United Kingdom, Oct. 26 -- Demi Moore put "a lot of pressure" on herself in her early years in Hollywood.

The 62-year-old actress always refused to choose between pursuing a career in the film business and being a mother - but she now admits that her stance added an extra layer of pressure.

Demi - who has Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, with ex-husband Bruce Willis - said during a question-and-answer session with Jia Tolentino at the New Yorker Festival: "It's one of the many things, for me, that I just felt didn't make sense. And so I challenged that to say, you know, 'Why not? Why can't you have both?' But with that, I think, came a lot of pressure I put on myself to, in a sense, prove that it was possible."

Demi was actually...