Molly Bloom Quotes

I built the most exclusive and decadent high-profile club for powerful men.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.

I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.

Ideally, I would like to not be in the public eye.

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that’s it.

I was in the company of movie stars, important directors, and powerful business tycoons. I felt like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.

When I’m in a hectic crowd of people, I don’t feel great. I’m looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.

I’ve been rich; I’ve been poor. I’ve been successful; I’ve been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn’t change dramatically. It’s less stressful to have money, that’s for sure. But that doesn’t mean I felt fulfilled. So I’ve learned to live in the smaller moments of life.

This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.

I’ve always been very ambitious and very determined and very compassionate at the same time.

I don’t think anyone’s private life stands up to public scrutiny.

My father is a psychologist who wouldn’t let fear stop us. Particularly with me, he was hell bent on requiring us and teaching us to walk through fear. I don’t know if I would’ve become someone who taps into their ability to push through those tough situations without him.

When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.

I did a little soul searching to explore where I had gone wrong, why I made the decisions I did, how my definitions of success and ambition were off. I love a great new pair of shoes – I love to look at my bank account and see zeroes – but what is it attached to?

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it’s a difficult life to explain, I lived it.

After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I’d done in my young adult life.

I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.

I don’t really miss the Hollywood lifestyle.

You’re going up against the billionaire boys’ club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it’s bigger than anything you ever imagined – and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless – maybe too fearless in the end.

I’m definitely a gambler, as exemplified by the massive risks I’ve taken.

When you’re willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it’s no longer recreation. It’s taking over.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

Because of athletics, I got real comfortable with risk at a young age.

I saw someone lose $100 million in one night. When you watch that, as an owner-operator of a game, you realize that these numbers are incredibly unsustainable, incredibly unhealthy. So, I was not happy about this loss. It brought me no joy or adrenaline.

I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.

I have been hugely successful at times in my life, and I have also been in ruins. But the lessons I learned on the way up were just as valuable on the way down.

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

Tobey Maguire was the worst tipper, the best player, and the absolute worst loser.

In terms of my own life and the mistakes I made and the struggles I had, I’m grateful for them. It taught me more than success and opportunity ever did.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million.

In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can’t dominate the decision-making process.

I believe that to get what you want as a woman is to use your brain, to have a job, and to not need someone or have to make decisions based on that.