Molly Ringwald Quotes

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

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.

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

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

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

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.

People feel like they grew up with me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

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.

I just needed to leave Hollywood.

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

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

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