It’s like that book I read in the 9th grade that said, ‘Tis a far, far better thing doing stuff for other people.'
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Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling (born May 7, 1954) is an American film director. She is an alumna of both New York University and the American Film Institute. She has had a commercially successful career with films including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, European Vacation, Look Who's Talking, and Clueless. Heckerling is a recipient of AFI's Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal celebrating her creative talents and artistic achievements. 2Early life and education Heckerling was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a bookkeeper mother and an accountant father. She had a Jewish upbringing and remembers that the apartment building where she spent her early childhood was full of Holocaust survivors. "Most of them had tattoos on their arms and for me there was a feeling that all of these people had a story to tell. These were interesting formative experiences." Both of her parents worked full-time, so she frequently moved back and forth from her home in the Bronx, where Heckerling claims she was a latchkey kid sitting at home all day watching television, to her grandmother's home in Brooklyn which she enjoyed much better. Here, she frequented Coney Island and stayed up watching films all night with her grandmother. At this time Heckerling loved television, where she watched numerous cartoons and old black and white movie
Josh: You look like Pippi Longstocking. Cher: Well, you look like Forrest Gump. Who’s Pippi Longstocking? Josh: Uh, someone Mel Gibson never played.
Josh: You look confused. Cher: Well, uh, I thought they declared peace in the Middle East.
I would like to say this. Tardiness is not something you can do on your own. Many, many people contributed to my tardiness. I would like to thank my parents for never giving me a ride to school, the LA city bus driver who took a chance on an unknown kid and last but not least, the wonderful crew…
Do you prefer fashion victim or ensembly challenged?
So okay, I don’t want to be a traitor to my generation and all but I don’t get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we’re expected to swoon? I don’t think…
Dionne: Dude, what’s wrong. You suffering from buyers remorse or something? Cher: God, no! Nothing like that.
Cher: I want to do something for humanity. Josh: How about sterilization?
Isn’t my house classic? The columns date all the way back to 1972.
Mel: Where are you? Cher: I’m just having a snack at my girlfriend’s. Mel: Where, in Kuwait? Cher: Is that in the valley?
Where’s my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal. It’s my most capable looking outfit!
Cher: If it’s a concussion, you have to keep her conscious, okay? Ask her questions. Elton: What’s seven times seven? Cher: Stuff she knows!
I feel like such a heifer. I had two bowls of Special K, 3 pieces of turkey bacon, a handful of popcorn, 5 peanut butter M&M’s and like 3 pieces of licorice.
Christian: Do you like Billie Holiday? Cher: I love him.
Amber: Was I the only one listening? I thought it reeked. Cher: No, I believe that’s your designer imposter perfume.
Murray: Your man Christian is a cake boy! Cher and Dionne: A what? Murray: He’s a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy, know what I’m saying?
Dionne and I were both named after famous singers of the past, who now do infomercials.
Mr. Hall: So does anyone have any final thoughts on Cher’s oration? Elton? Elton: Yeah. I can’t find my Cranberries CD. I gotta go to the quad before anyone snags it.
Okay, so you’re probably going, 'Is this like a Noxzema commercial or what?' But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl.