Ally Sheedy Quotes

#1. "I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."

Miley Cyrus

#2. My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.

Teju Cole

#3. I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Gilles Peress

#4. But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

Ally Sheedy

#5. I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.

Lisa Cholodenko

#6. Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

Ally Sheedy

#7. I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

Ally Sheedy

#8. I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Ally Sheedy

#9. Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Ally Sheedy

#10. It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

Ally Sheedy

#11. He loved her so much that it almost took his breath away.

Gaston Leroux

#12. So close
I can almost touch you
But then you're gone
Like mist around the edge...

Staci Hart

#13. When you grow up, your heart dies.

Ally Sheedy

#14. You know what my philosophy of life is? That it's important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

Woody Allen

#15. I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

Ally Sheedy

#16. - Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself.
- But your yourself sucks!
- It is, lamentably, all I have.

Junot Diaz

#17. Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Walter Bagehot

#18. I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

Ally Sheedy

#19. My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Ally Sheedy

#20. I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Ally Sheedy

#21. The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

Ally Sheedy