Molly Shannon famous quotes

04-21-2025

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.
-- Molly Shannon

#Three #Really Long #Three Words
I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
-- Molly Shannon

#College #Actors #Dramatic
I really love having lots of down time with my kids.
-- Molly Shannon

#Kids
I went to drama school at New York University.
-- Molly Shannon

#New York #Drama #School
I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.
-- Molly Shannon

#Struggle #School #Thinking
If it's not happening, write your own thing!
-- Molly Shannon

#Writing #Write Your Own #Happenings
Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.
-- Molly Shannon

#Long #Earth #Joyous
I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.
-- Molly Shannon

#Mother #Children #Pain
In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
-- Molly Shannon

#Real #Thinking #People
I try to put my own history in my work.
-- Molly Shannon

#Trying #My Own
There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.
-- Molly Shannon

#Watches #I Can
I want to do something I feel like I can do.
-- Molly Shannon

#Want #Feels #Can Do
Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
-- Molly Shannon

#Acting #Fans #Use
I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.
-- Molly Shannon

#Trying #Littles #Stuff
The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.
-- Molly Shannon

#Parent #Connections #Eternal
In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.
-- Molly Shannon

#Hurt #Couple #Real
People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.
-- Molly Shannon

#Struggle #People #Divorced
Marriage can be complicated.
-- Molly Shannon

#Complicated
The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.
-- Molly Shannon

#Character #Clothes #Shoes
I do use my body a lot, to click into a character.
-- Molly Shannon

#Character #Use #Body
I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."
-- Molly Shannon

#Thinking #Would Be #Stuff
When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.
-- Molly Shannon

#Night #Saturday Night #Saturday Night Live
I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.
-- Molly Shannon

#Writing #Years #Watches
I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it.
-- Molly Shannon

#Believe #Writing #People
I've got wonderful people I get to work with, and I'm trying to focus on that, instead of worrying about, Aw, who doesn't want to work with me? You focus on the ones who do.
-- Molly Shannon

#People #Worry #Focus

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