Molly Ringwald

I have a very independent spirit.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.