Top 42 Quotes & Sayings by Jenny Mollen

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Jenny Mollen.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jenny Mollen

Jenny Ann Mollen Biggs is an American actress and author. Mollen is known for her portrayal of Nina Ash on the television series Angel (2003–04). She has also appeared on the series Viva Laughlin (2007), Crash (2008), and Girls (2014). Mollen has published two collections of essays, and has written articles for various publications, including Cosmopolitan and Parents. She has appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list twice with her books I Like You Just The Way I Am (2014) and Live Fast Die Hot (2016).

I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
On Twitter, people just want to hear a joke. They don't really want to know about your life.
Very few things are off-limits for me. — © Jenny Mollen
Very few things are off-limits for me.
I've always gravitated toward men who sort of kind of eclipsed me in some way. And I think that it's because I have this need to be better.
Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.
My brother and I have never been that close. We have different mothers and never lived in the same house. As kids, my sister, Samantha, and I lived in San Diego and Brad in Brooklyn. The only time I saw him was in the summer when our visitations with our father overlapped.
I don't know how not to share.
Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.
Marriage is amazing.
I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.
I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?
I don't mind the term 'feminist.'
I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.
In a healthy relationship, there is stability and security. — © Jenny Mollen
In a healthy relationship, there is stability and security.
It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.
I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.
Chelsea Handler is a good friend of mine, and I always was inspired by the fact that she was taking her life and turning it into these ridiculous, raunchy memoirs. She really has a talent, and she's a great writer. I was inspired by her trajectory.
At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.
Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity.
My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.
Discipline tops my list of most-hated things, followed closely by portobello mushrooms.
I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.
The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he's not too much better than I am!
I read 'The First Bad Man' by Miranda July, and I just thought, 'Oh my God, I'll never be this good. That book is so incredible.'
From your first kid, your body still kind of looks the same once you get back in shape.
There's this unspoken assumption when you're the child of a doctor that nothing is ever wrong with you - or at least nothing horrendous enough to warrant your father leaving work.
I just hope that people, women specifically, embrace that side of themselves that maybe is a little nuts or that society tells us is crazy.
My greatest fear for my child is that he marries a woman exactly like me.
I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people.
I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say. — © Jenny Mollen
I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.
I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.
I never had a go-to girl squad. I think that I'm only friends with loners, so I have a select group of loners that I hang out with individually.
I surround myself with bizarre people. They're more fun to write about.
I want to be doing something that I love and actually being able to feed myself by doing it.
I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.
In my twenties, my dad was paying half my rent and my ex boyfriend was paying the other half. I wasn't in a good place!
There are two types of people in the world: those who think everyone needs therapy, and those who have never been.
Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.
My parents ... are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight.
Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.
I think as an actress before I was on Twitter I thought, I'm only doing drama [and dramatic roles]... but then as soon I started tweeting it was like, "Oh you're the funny girl!"... but that was never how I saw myself. It's changed how I seem in other people's eyes.
I like you just the way I am. — © Jenny Mollen
I like you just the way I am.
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