Molly Ringwald famous quotes

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

#Special #Shapes #Helping

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

#Appreciation #Dad #Home

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

#Lying #Promise #Moments

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

#Sleep #Kids #Tired

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

#Growing Up #Kids #Black

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

#Regret #Believe #Past

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

#Actors #Honest #Being Honest

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
-- Molly Ringwald

#Impact #Filmmaking

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

#Book #Writing #Thinking

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

#Self Esteem #Self #Want

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

#Mistake #Teenager #Being Free

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

#Father #Years #Trying

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

#Teenager #Insecure #Emotional

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

#Believe #Careers #Keys

I have a very independent spirit.
-- Molly Ringwald

#Independent #Spirit

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

#California

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

#Eye

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

#Book #Turning 40 #Spots

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

#Wish #Prepared

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

#People #Grew #Grew Up

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

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

#Teenager #Young

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

#Change #Mean #Home

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

#Kissing #Thinking #People

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

#Believe #Geek #Panties

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

#Mother #Daughter #Reality

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

#Money #Daddy #Your Dad

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

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Way

I just needed to leave Hollywood.
-- Molly Ringwald

#Hollywood #Needed

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

#Musical #Want #Comfort

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

#Magazines #Excited #Bigger

Originally I considered myself a singer.
-- Molly Ringwald

#Singers