Molly Ringwald Quotes

You never know when you read a script how it’s going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I’d been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn’t have been a success.

You can’t be 16 forever.

When you say you’re 40, you can’t call yourself an ingenue any more.

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.

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.

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.

People feel like they grew up with me.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

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

I’ve been called the Women’s Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.

I’m so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

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

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.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

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.

I just needed to leave Hollywood.