Ally Sheedy
My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.Collection: Experience
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.
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.
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.
When you grow up, your heart dies.Collection: Growing Up
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.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Connections
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.Collection: Knowing