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Ally Sheedy Quotes

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

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
Hands, Experience, Taught

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Ally Sheedy
Hollywood, Definitions, Discrimination
"Wheeler W. Dixon The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image". Book by Wheeler Winston Dixon, February 28, 2000.

When you grow up, your heart dies.

Ally Sheedy
Growing Up, Heart, Breakfast
Jaime Clarke, Ally Sheedy (2007). “Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes”, Gallery

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

Ally Sheedy
Drug, Want, Facts

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
Want, Way, Facts

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
Connections, Female, Looks

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

Ally Sheedy
Stars, Ambition, Desire

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
Falling In Love, Men, Thinking

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

Ally Sheedy
Jobs, Character, Thinking

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
Knowing, Two, People

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