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

Molly Ringwald

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Molly Ringwald
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: February 18
Actress
Dancer
Film Actor
Novelist
Recording Artist
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Roseville
California
Molly Kathleen Ringwald
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Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
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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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I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
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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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I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.
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When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.
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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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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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I never really felt like I belonged in California.
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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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I just needed to leave Hollywood.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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