Allegra Huston

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. ”

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been. ”

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

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 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. ”

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. ”

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 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. ”

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