Amy Heckerling Quotes

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

I started driving really late. It was super freeing and fun to be able to just drive by myself. But the thing is, I don't really like driving.

Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

Panic is a horrible thing.

I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with.