Hello, Molly!: A Memoir Quotes
"All you have to do is go up, and say, ‘I’m Molly,’ and introduce yourself. I think you’re going to have a lot of friends, because you seem like the type of person who could do that."
"Jim, that’s enough. Watch it. Cut yourself off now."
"So many people stopped to help. Firemen were called to put out the small, smoldering fire in front of the car."
"I imagine he must have looked at it once and never wanted to look at it again."
"In the end, all that is relevant is that it changed our lives forever."
"I thought, ‘I’m very capable, because he’s put his trust in me to solve these adult problems.’"
"I was so much more interested in studying her as a character and thinking about her and getting an opportunity to follow her and watch her than I was in singing ‘Tea for Two.’"
"I thought, ‘This is pure heaven.’ And then I met the boy who played the Scarecrow, the only other cast member my age, and fell madly in love."
"I always dismissed that kind of advice. I was tough."
"I just want to tell her, ‘Give me some space!’"
"You could’ve set this place on fire. Go to bed!"
"It’s so upsetting to see you so drunk like that. It’s scary. Please, I beg of you, go back and talk to those people at AA."
"Oh, it’s just a party. Don’t worry. There will always be more parties."
"The love of my life might be at that party and I need to get there now."
"They need somebody to listen to them and talk to them."
"How could you do that to Molly? That is terrible. If you ever hurt Molly again in any way I swear to God, I will fucking kill you."
"I must explain I can’t tell you my crime in detail because my case is still being pursued by detectives in Shaker."
"I’m not going to listen to anything this guy says!"
"You have been accepted to New York University."
"If you can cheat or find the answers or give yourself an extra day, do that."
"But don’t ever drink and drive. Please, girls! Never!"
"Look at this picture of Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet. That looks like Molly!"
"Just make up a character and walk through the door and introduce yourself and try to impress me."
"I would make five hundred calls to get two hundred people to come, and hustle and tell everyone I met: 'You gotta come see my show!'"
"Everybody should be allowed to come, I thought."
"I was always nice to people who collected cans and asked for food and they would take the bus to see my show."
"And if people couldn’t afford to buy a ticket I would pay for their ticket. I thought, Someday the money’s gonna come back to me."
"It was like punk rock. I wanted to hurt myself. I was in a reckless stage of my life."
"I don’t like it when performers act like they are making fun of their characters."
"But I always felt like there was an ache in my heart. Like someone was missing. My mom."
"I’m not going to do that. That’s not going to get me anywhere."
"It was really windy. I kept rewinding the song. I could feel that change was in the air."
"I really embraced the unknown. That was the spirit. Not knowing what lay ahead."
"You gotta listen to this message he just left!"
"I wound up having a tremendous amount of admiration for her."
"Barbara!" like he knew her. Like she was his good friend.
"This is not Monty Python. This girl believes in God."
"You talk about yourself—that you lost your wife."