Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Molly Bloom

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Molly Bloom.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the 1922 novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not. Molly is having an affair with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan. Molly, whose given name is Marion, was born in Gibraltar on 8 September 1870, the daughter of Major Tweedy, an Irish military officer, and Lunita Laredo, a Gibraltarian of Spanish descent. Molly and Leopold were married on 8 October 1888. She is the mother of Milly Bloom, who, at the age of 15, has left home to study photography. She is also the mother of Rudy Bloom, who died at the age of 11 days. In Dublin, Molly is an opera singer of some renown.

American - Author | Born: April 21, 1978

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Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

Molly Bloom

I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.

Molly Bloom

Tobey Maguire and I had a tough relationship - it was a tough working relationship. We butted heads, and ultimately, I lost the Los Angeles game because of differences with him. But then I moved to New York and built a bigger game, five times bigger, making more money, and that was pretty exciting.

Molly Bloom

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult life to explain, I lived it.

Molly Bloom

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

Molly Bloom

You can tell a lot about a man's character by watching him win or lose money.

Molly Bloom

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes - I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes - but what is it attached to?

Molly Bloom

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

Molly Bloom

I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.

Molly Bloom

I'm really kind of a behind-the-scenes person.

Molly Bloom

I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.

Molly Bloom

Even if there are people around to help you, you don't suffer with an audience; you don't triumph with an audience.

Molly Bloom

I kept these games pretty intimate. You know, with this much money on the table, with this much risk, you wanted to make people feel safe. They don't want to feel like they're part of a spectator's sport - well, the winners do, but the losers do not.

Molly Bloom

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

Molly Bloom

I think, before I had money, I believed that money would solve my problems, that it would give me power and I wouldn't have financial stress anymore, and it would completely change my life. And then, when I had money, it changed a lot of things, but it didn't change the way I felt inside at all.

Molly Bloom

Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.

Molly Bloom

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

Molly Bloom

I approach everything, including sobriety, with the same mentality I approached sports with. You're going to put in the time. You've got to suit up, show up, and keep your eyes on the win.

Molly Bloom

I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.

Molly Bloom

I don't really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

Molly Bloom

I had a full-time driver, or I would take my Bentley. I'd have big houses in the Hamptons for the summer, taking seaplanes or helicopters out. I did a lot of flying privately to Miami. A lot of shopping.

Molly Bloom

I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.

Molly Bloom

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

Molly Bloom

I believe that to get what you want as a woman is to use your brain, to have a job, and to not need someone or have to make decisions based on that.

Molly Bloom

I'm definitely a gambler, as exemplified by the massive risks I've taken.

Molly Bloom

Money is the great equalizer.

Molly Bloom

I would love to raise a fund or get some awesome empowered women together and put together an advisory board to get behind female entrepreneurs.

Molly Bloom

When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.

Molly Bloom

Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.

Molly Bloom

I made a lot of mistakes.

Molly Bloom

My father is a psychologist who wouldn't let fear stop us. Particularly with me, he was hell bent on requiring us and teaching us to walk through fear. I don't know if I would've become someone who taps into their ability to push through those tough situations without him.

Molly Bloom

Literally, if you weren't the best in the world in my family, it wasn't impressive.

Molly Bloom

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

Molly Bloom

I'm finally my dad's favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.

Molly Bloom

I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit. My life was really stressful.

Molly Bloom

I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.

Molly Bloom

This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.

Molly Bloom

My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.

Molly Bloom

I was in the company of movie stars, important directors, and powerful business tycoons. I felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.

Molly Bloom

I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.

Molly Bloom

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

Molly Bloom

I've been rich; I've been poor. I've been successful; I've been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn't change dramatically. It's less stressful to have money, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean I felt fulfilled. So I've learned to live in the smaller moments of life.

Molly Bloom

I'd spent life so terrified of failure that when it happened, it was very liberating.

Molly Bloom

I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.

Molly Bloom

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I'm grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

Molly Bloom

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

Molly Bloom

After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I'd done in my young adult life.

Molly Bloom

I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.

Molly Bloom

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.

Molly Bloom

Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.

Molly Bloom

I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.

Molly Bloom

I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.

Molly Bloom

You're going up against the billionaire boys' club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it's bigger than anything you ever imagined - and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless - maybe too fearless in the end.

Molly Bloom

In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

Molly Bloom

When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.

Molly Bloom

Know when to fold. Pay attention to the signs. They're there.

Molly Bloom

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

Molly Bloom

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Molly Bloom

I think everyone can relate to that fall from grace - having life change in an instant or having to stand for some of your bad choices, that feeling of 'Nothing is ever going to be good again.'

Molly Bloom

I believed that writing my story was my best shot to be able to pay my mom and my attorneys back and pull myself out of this massive crisis that I had put myself in.

Molly Bloom

Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Molly Bloom

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