Ally Sheedy

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 a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.