Quotes from Ally Sheedy

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

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.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.