Quotes from Molly Ringwald

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks.

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

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.

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.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

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.

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.

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

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