Allegra Huston Quotes

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

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• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  

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• I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

  

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• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

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• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

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• I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

  

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• I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

  

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• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

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• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

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  • Time
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• Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Mind
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• It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

  

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• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

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• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

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  • You
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• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

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  • Great
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• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

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• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

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• I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

  

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• One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.

  

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• I'm just waiting for the first #MeToo moment to happen from a salon because the culture of how assistants are treated, especially in salons in L.A. and New York, is, like, truly unbelievable. You're expected to clock out for lunch and never get paid. You're expected to be there an hour early, stay two hours late.

  

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• I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

  

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• I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
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• 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
  • Dad
  • Famous
  • Daughter