A biography for Amy Heckerlinghasn’t been written yet.
“I wasn't bat mitzvahed.”
“I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.”
“I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.”
“I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.”
“Bitterness is so ugly.”
“I'm real excited by a phone where I can look at my kid and talk to her face.”
“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.”
“Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.”
“I didn't go to Hebrew school.”
“I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.”
“There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.”
“If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.”
“I can't stomach most of the movies about women.”
“I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!”
“A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.”
“In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there's going to be 30 of them. When I did 'Look Who's Talking,' people went: 'Oh but there's going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.' I can't worry about that. I can only do what I want to do.”
“I really live in my own kind of universe.”
“Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.”
“The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.”
“After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?”