Sheedy Quotes & Sayings

When you grow up, your heart dies. — Ally Sheedy

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes. — Ally Sheedy

But you knew what would happen. Why would you choose to walk right into a situation where you know the person is going to be hurtful? It kills me to see you do that, and you do it all the time. It's like a form of insanity. - Peter Morrow
You call it insanity, I call it optimism. - Clara Morrow — Louise Penny

Unconditional love is furnished by many 4 legged creatures, but chiefly by human kinds best friend DOG! — Ladee Basset

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." Lily Tomlin — E.C. Sheedy

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

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. — Ally Sheedy

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. — Ally Sheedy

The most profound benefit of yoga and meditation for me has been a natural relaxing into my life. Obstacles are not so scary. I am more fluid, more curious, and at the same time more patient. I have more options for happiness because I don't require specific conditions. It is a relief to discover that I can be happy even if the world doesn't revolve around me or my agenda. — Cyndi Lee

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

Love your spirited child for who she is. Because she is more, she will make you more. — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

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. — Ally Sheedy

Downwinders, meaning those people, individuals, communities that were downwind of the nuclear test site. During those years when we were testing atomic bombs above ground, when we watched them for entertainment from the roofs of our high schools, little did we know what was raining down on us, little did we know what would appear years later. — Terry Tempest Williams

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. — Ally Sheedy

Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity. — Frederick Lenz

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination. — Ally Sheedy

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book. — Kelly Hu

WHILE EACH SPIRITED CHILD IS UNIQUE, most are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change. Many, but not all, possess four additional "bonus" characteristics: aspects of their personality that can make being their parent even more challenging. — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

The woman laughed again. She was the loudest person in the cave. Eena wondered if perhaps she was talking to a female Ghengat. Curiosity got the best of her and she turned around to look, surprised to find neither a Ghengat nor a Harrowbethian woman, but a Mishmorat. A striking, cheetah-spotted Mishmorat with straight lengths of charcoal hair and the most alluring dark eyes in existence. This bronzed female was the same size as Eena but observably more muscular. She appeared to be a mix of cheetah, Arabian princess, and gladiator in tight-fitting pants. Eena paused, dropping the stone in her hands.
"Kira?" she breathed.
"Hmmm," the woman grumbled. Her painted eyes scrunched with displeasure. The look was still stunning. "I see my reputation precedes me."
Eena gawked as if a legendary ghost had been resurrected. "You're alive? — Richelle E. Goodrich

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. — Ally Sheedy

He chuckled. "I cannot speak for other men, but I want the woman who stumbles over a word like virgin and can say whore without raising a blush." His smile faded and he spoke soberly. "Your soldier ... your first love ... and every circumstance that followed in some way brought you to me, and while I can wish that you had never had your heart hurt, that you had never suffered even a moment of doubt, of pain, of sadness ... of betrayal, I also know that you would in some way be changed. It would have made your life different. Mine also." North gave her hand a light squeeze. "Whether we are shaped by the circumstances of our lives, or by our perceptions of them, I still find I very much admire the shape you have become. — Jo Goodman

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.' — Emily Robison

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

No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star. — Diana Peterfreund

Blood doesn't make a family. — E.C. Sheedy

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

I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take [shooting] too seriously because I think it could really damage you if you do that. — Michael Pitt