Molly Ringwald Quotes
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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.
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John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
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I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.
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A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.
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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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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.
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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 never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.
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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.
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People feel like they grew up with me.
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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.
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Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.
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I have a very independent spirit.
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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.
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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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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.
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Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
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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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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.
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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 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'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
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I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.
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I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.