Molly Ringwald Quotes

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

Molly Ringwald

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• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Possible
  • Coincidences

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Immigration
  • Legal

• I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Business
  • Responsibility
  • Trust

• Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Giving
  • Explain
  • Does

• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Opinion
  • Will
  • Against

• I'm pretty boring.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Pretty
  • Boring

• You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Effort

• People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Know
  • Play
  • Nothing

• Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

  

  Mark Millar
  • Writing
  • America

• You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Time
  • Help

• On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Way

• Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Control
  • Hand
  • Hands

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

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Control
  • Choose
  • Perceive