Ally Sheedy Quotes

It`s so unfair. The term "Brat Pack" is so condescending.

I started writing because I used to tell stories to the children who lived nearby and when I was six I started writing them down. I write poetry and plays, too, and writing is important to me. It is important for me to express my feelings and thoughts. If I`m feeling angry or wonderful or upset or happy I just write it out and reread the feelings over and over again. When I`m depressed I read something I wrote when I was happy and I can feel a great lift in my spirits. I love writing!

I am really close to my parents. My mother and my father do not live together. We children spend half of the week at one house and half of the week at the other house. We have been living as we do for six years. I get along well with my brother Patrick, who is ten, and my sister Meghan, who is thirteen. We have an iguana and rabbit as pets.

All I care about for Christmas and 2003 is health and happiness for my daughter.

(inteview with Alissa Quart, 1998) I had to leave (Hollywood). The roles I wanted weren`t there.

When something major happens to you, you have to adapt yourself to it, but I`ve always been the same inside. When I was a little girl, I was the way I am now and in the future I`ll still be the same. Outside circumstances change and you have to develop different skills, but it`s all fun in its own way. I don`t keep money in the center of focus. I know that I have enough to support myself for a little while, so I can wait and do things I want to do.

I don`t get hassled on the street. People do come up to me and say they enjoy my movies and it`s a really good feeling. One day I was in the supermarket and this little girl came up and said, "Are you Ally? Oh God, I love The Breakfast Club (1985) so much.` It made me feel so good."

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

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.

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

I`d rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

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.

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

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

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.