Top 15 Quotes by Allegra Huston

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.