Allegra Huston

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.