Sheedy Ally Quotes & Sayings

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals. — Helen Keller

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

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

There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction. — Dalai Lama

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea. — Antonio Machado

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

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

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

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. — Augustus William Hare

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

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.
How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee? — John Green

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination. — Ally Sheedy

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

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. — Victor Hugo

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

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

It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating - perhaps when I get the time again, I could pick up where I left off. — Rory McIlroy

'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world. — Taylor Hicks

I say I appear naked before you, but so often I whistle for my invisible armed guard; the gap-toothed, jeering, club-headed mob, my feelings, that are used to having me to themselves. — Jeanette Winterson

Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus? — Henry Benjamin Whipple

What usually happens with me [is that] I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens. — Kathleen Hanna

At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft. — Charlie LeDuff

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile. — Ben Aaronovitch