Ally Sheedy quotes:

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 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.

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

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

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.

Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

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.

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.

When you grow up, your heart dies.