The most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children. — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have. — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people. — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire. — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families. — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
