Top 50 Molly Ringwald Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

3. “I can’t believe I gave my panties to a geek.”

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

5. “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.”

— Molly Ringwald

6. “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

7. “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.”

— Molly Ringwald

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8. “Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.”

— Molly Ringwald

9. “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.”

— Molly Ringwald

10. “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

11. “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

12. “The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”

— Molly Ringwald

13. “We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.”

— Molly Ringwald

14. “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?’”

— Molly Ringwald

15. “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.”

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

17. “I don’t really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn’t want a different life.”

— Molly Ringwald

18. “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

19. “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

20. “Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?”

— Molly Ringwald

21. “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

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

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “Books have always been really important to me; they’re my saving grace.”

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

29. “John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.”

— Molly Ringwald

30. “I can’t stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.”

— Molly Ringwald

31. “I never really felt like I belonged in California.”

— Molly Ringwald

32. “I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.”

— Molly Ringwald

33. “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

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

— Molly Ringwald

35. “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.”

— Molly Ringwald

36. “And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.”

— Molly Ringwald

37. “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.”

— Molly Ringwald

38. “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.”

— Molly Ringwald

39. “I just needed to leave Hollywood.”

— Molly Ringwald

40. “I have a very independent spirit.”

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

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

— Molly Ringwald

44. “I’m so associated with being young and being with a teenager.”

— Molly Ringwald

45. “Originally I considered myself a singer.”

— Molly Ringwald

46. “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

47. “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.”

— Molly Ringwald

48. “When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.”

— Molly Ringwald

49. “Sometimes when people have kids young, they’re not ready.”

— Molly Ringwald

50. “People feel like they grew up with me.”

— Molly Ringwald