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.

— Molly Ringwald

Molly Ringwald Quotes

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.

— Molly Ringwald

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.

— Molly Ringwald

A lot of people don’t realize that not everybody gets high.

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

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.

— Molly Ringwald

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.

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

I think once you’re a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

— Molly Ringwald

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.

— Molly Ringwald

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it’s hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

— Molly Ringwald

I’ve always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.

— Molly Ringwald

All of the advice that I give, I’m not an expert by any means, but it’s just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.

— Molly Ringwald

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.

— Molly Ringwald

To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

— Molly Ringwald

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

— Molly Ringwald

I’ve been acting for so long it’s more like – I won’t say easy, exactly, but there’s not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing – particularly when you’re writing yourself, when it’s you, when it’s your life, you really can’t hide.

— Molly Ringwald

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.

— Molly Ringwald
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