Latest Molly Shannon Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Source: collider.com

• I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

  Molly Shannon

  Jobs, Want, Good Job

  Source: collider.com

• I want to do something I feel like I can do.

  Molly Shannon

  Want, Feels, Can Do

  Source: collider.com

• You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.

  Molly Shannon

  Reading, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

• I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you don't, you're going to have problems. It's very important. It's also a gut instinct.

  Molly Shannon

  Writing, Important, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

• I'm very driven by writing.

  Molly Shannon

  Writing, Driven

  Source: collider.com

• I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

  Molly Shannon

  Art, Writing, Art Of Writing

  Source: collider.com

• I have always loved both drama and comedy.

  Molly Shannon

  Drama, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

• I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.

  Molly Shannon

  Drama, Comedy, Monologues

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• I do use my body a lot, to click into a character.

  Molly Shannon

  Character, Use, Body

  Source: collider.com

• Marriage can be complicated.

  Molly Shannon

  Complicated

  Source: collider.com

• People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

  Molly Shannon

  Struggle, People, Divorced

  Source: collider.com

• The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.

  Molly Shannon

  Parent, Connections, Eternal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If it's not happening, write your own thing!

  Molly Shannon

  Writing, Write Your Own, Happenings

  Source: www.mtv.com

• There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.

  Molly Shannon

  Watches, I Can

  Source: www.mtv.com

• 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

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I feel like there is this resurgence of amazing roles for women. It's because TV is so good - there are amazing parts for women on TV, and it's upped the game in movies.

  Molly Shannon

  Games, Roles, Tvs

  Source: www.mtv.com

• 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

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

  Molly Shannon

  Beautiful, Children, Healthy

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

  Molly Shannon

  Effort, Patterns, Want

  Source: www.mtv.com

• 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

  Source: www.mtv.com