75 Quotes by Amy Heckerling

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.