Molly Ringwald Quotes

Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.

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

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

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.

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend.

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

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.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

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 needed to leave Hollywood.

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.

I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.

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.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.