Amy Heckerling Quotes

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

I react emotionally to everything!

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Man is an unhappy animal and one that can talk. If he was not unhappy, he would have nothing to talk about. But if he had nothing to talk about, he would be unhappy.

I was once a fairly angry person.

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.