Jenny Mollen Quotes

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Jenny Mollen

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 30, 1979

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.

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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!

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

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At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

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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.

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I surround myself with bizarre people. They're more fun to write about.

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I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Very few things are off-limits for me.

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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.

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On Twitter, people just want to hear a joke. They don't really want to know about your life.

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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.

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From your first kid, your body still kind of looks the same once you get back in shape.

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Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.

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