Molly Ringwald Quotes

• The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

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• 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.

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• You can’t be 16 forever.

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

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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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• 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.

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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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• People feel like they grew up with me.

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• Originally I considered myself a singer.

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• John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• I never really felt like I belonged in California.

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• I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

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• 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.

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• I just needed to leave Hollywood.

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Molly Ringwald (27)

Birth:	18th February, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Author, Dancer

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Births

• 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman
• 1931 - Shirley Hazzard
• 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso
• 1961 - Dexter Scott King
• 1871 - Seymour Hicks

Deaths

• 1926 - W. L. George
• 1948 - Orville Wright
• 2007 - Sidney Sheldon
• 2006 - Wendy Wasserstein