Allegra Huston Quotes

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

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

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 met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.

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.

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 lucky.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

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 as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

I look at ‘Love Child’ and it’s as if it was written by someone else – someone who knew what they were doing.

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

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.