Molly Ringwald Quotes & Sayings

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want. — Molly Ringwald

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace. — Molly Ringwald

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read. — Molly Ringwald

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself. — Molly Ringwald

I have a very independent spirit. — Molly Ringwald

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager. — Molly Ringwald

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success. — Molly Ringwald

People feel like they grew up with me. — Molly Ringwald

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice. — Molly Ringwald

It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years. — Molly Ringwald

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame. — Molly Ringwald

She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipherable symbols. — Molly Ringwald

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you. — Molly Ringwald

For Peter, being with Greta was like being wrapped in a warm towel after emerging cold and shivering from the ocean. — Molly Ringwald

I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk. — Molly Ringwald

You can't be 16 forever. — Molly Ringwald

To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids. — Molly Ringwald

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable. — Molly Ringwald

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy. — Molly Ringwald

I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better - and they would grow back anyway. — Molly Ringwald

I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice. — Molly Ringwald

Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready. — Molly Ringwald

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become. — Molly Ringwald

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately. — Molly Ringwald

I just needed to leave Hollywood. — Molly Ringwald

Anyone gots some mangoes up in here? — Molly Ringwald

When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. You will feel like you have been kicked in the stomach, that your insides have just separated to make room for something big. — Molly Ringwald

Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books. — Molly Ringwald

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most. — Molly Ringwald

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more. — Molly Ringwald

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything. — Molly Ringwald

I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?' — Molly Ringwald

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions. — Molly Ringwald

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations. — Molly Ringwald

My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud. — Molly Ringwald

I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack. — Molly Ringwald

The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret. — Molly Ringwald

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide. — Molly Ringwald

I never really felt like I belonged in California. — Molly Ringwald

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye. — Molly Ringwald

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. — Molly Ringwald

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. — Molly Ringwald

I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially. — Molly Ringwald

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded, — Molly Ringwald

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be. — Molly Ringwald

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing. — Molly Ringwald

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic. — Molly Ringwald

Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks. — Molly Ringwald

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. — Molly Ringwald

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek. — Molly Ringwald

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you? — Molly Ringwald

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive. — Molly Ringwald

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie. — Molly Ringwald

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you. — Molly Ringwald

I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself. — Molly Ringwald

I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend. — Molly Ringwald

I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics. — Molly Ringwald

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read. — Molly Ringwald

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food. — Molly Ringwald

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing. — Molly Ringwald

Whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her — Molly Ringwald

The heart is stupid. — Molly Ringwald

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get. — Molly Ringwald

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high. — Molly Ringwald

All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling. — Molly Ringwald

I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing. — Molly Ringwald

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. — Molly Ringwald

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles. — Molly Ringwald

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life. — Molly Ringwald

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom. — Molly Ringwald

Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive. — Molly Ringwald