Dwell on the past 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.

— 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…

— Allegra Huston

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…

— Allegra Huston

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

— Allegra Huston

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…

— Allegra Huston

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…

— Allegra Huston

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.

— Allegra Huston

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…

— Allegra Huston

Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

— Allegra Huston

The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age…

— Allegra Huston

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I…

— Allegra Huston

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

— Allegra Huston