Amy Heckerling Quotes

My dad's always had an unbelievable, positive attitude about everything.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.

I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building and after 50 floors says, ‘So far, so good!’

You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.

Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.

Every day is a blessing in WWE, and I keep reminding myself of that. That's my character.

I'm blindingly optimistic. Ravingly optimistic.

The word you sometimes get is 'deluded,' they use, but for me, I've always been very positive.

I work hard for my stuff. And even when I work hard for my stuff, it gets taken away - which is cool. It's alright. You can't take my smile. And you won't.

I'm generally a positive person.

Hope . . . never stops at all.

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

I think I have terminal curiosity. So I always think that the future will be better and different than the past. As I look back and take inventory of myself, I'm very open-minded and flexible. People say the older you get, you get set in your ways. I don't think so.

It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

Being cheerful keeps you healthy