Molly Ringwald Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.
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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.
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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.
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Originally I considered myself a singer.
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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.
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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?'
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Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.
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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.
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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.
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I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
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I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.
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Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
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Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.
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I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
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When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
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I have a very independent spirit.
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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.
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I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.
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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.
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In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
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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.
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Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.
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I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.
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From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.
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The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
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I just needed to leave Hollywood.
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I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
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