Allegra Huston Quotes

With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.

What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Never gamble with other people's money," he said to me the next day, as if I should have known it. "If you lose, you'll be in debt to them. If you win, you'll feel you're owed something, but it's their choice whether to share the winnings with you - and how much. It's a position no woman should put herself in.

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.