Wealth & Money Quote by Anjelica Huston

Normalcy is the real flex here. Huston isn’t name-dropping Hollywood royalty so much as draining it of its glamour, turning what the rest of us treat as myth into background noise. The line is built on a simple swap: other kids had bankers or farmers; she had a filmmaker. It’s not presented as extraordinary, just a different version of ordinary. That casual equivalence is the point. She’s staking a claim to an upbringing that wasn’t “privileged” in her own mind, but patterned, routine, domesticated.

The subtext carries a quiet defense mechanism. By framing movie stars as “just around,” Huston preempts the audience’s obsession with proximity to fame. It’s a way of refusing the tabloid narrative that her life must have been a nonstop parade of spectacle. “Some of them were friends, others weren’t” is deliberately flat, almost bored. Celebrity becomes interpersonal in the most unromantic way: some people click, some don’t. The magic dissolves into social texture.

Context matters: Huston is John Huston’s daughter, raised in a milieu where the film industry wasn’t an aspiration but infrastructure. That upbringing both grants access and imposes expectations. The quote works because it’s doing two things at once: acknowledging her insider status while insisting it didn’t feel like a fairy tale. It’s a subtle bid for agency - to be seen not as a product of Hollywood, but as someone who learned early that the camera’s glare is just another kind of weather.