Top 70 Ringwald Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ringwald

#1. I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational.

Jane Leeves

#2. I'm so glad you're here, Abby. I feel like I just walked into a Molly Ringwald movie.

Jamie McGuire

#3. 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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#4. I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

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#5. Whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her

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#6. 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.

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#7. I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.

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#8. I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better - and they would grow back anyway.

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

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#10. You can't be 16 forever.

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#11. People feel like they grew up with me.

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#12. The heart is stupid.

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#13. I have a very independent spirit.

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

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#15. When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

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#16. Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

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#17. I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

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#18. 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.

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

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

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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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#24. She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipherable symbols.

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#25. I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

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

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

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#28. Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

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#29. 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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#30. When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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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#33. I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.

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

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#35. 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.

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#36. 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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#37. A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

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

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#39. The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

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#40. 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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#41. The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.

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#42. I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.

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#43. 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.

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

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#45. 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.

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

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

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#49. 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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#50. Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.

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#51. I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

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#52. 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.

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#53. I never really felt like I belonged in California.

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#54. I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

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#55. I just needed to leave Hollywood.

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#56. 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.

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#57. Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.

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#58. For Peter, being with Greta was like being wrapped in a warm towel after emerging cold and shivering from the ocean.

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

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#60. 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.

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#61. And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

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#62. 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.

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