“…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood”

“But never mind, all the best heroines are beautiful orphans, abandoned to their fate, and the one thing that's certain about my situation is that I'm going to be a heroine when I grow up.'
'Can I be a hero?'
'Well, I suppose you can try. But you'll have to try very hard.”

“Heroines followin' Marilyn hoppin' over the edge just like Janis Joplin,
River Phoenix, Jimi Hendrix, James Morrison
All of them ended by Hollywood.
Thank God for Hollywood,
Hollywood, Sure you want this baby?”

“There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were”

“Hero is a misnomer. India is the only place left in the world where we call our stars heroes and heroines.”

“Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.”

“Unlike storybook heroes and heroines but like many actual heroes and heroines, she was something of a social outcast. (As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.)”

“Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..”

“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

“I hope I am m not sounding presumptuous or vain. but I think like Sridevi, I was another heroine who could break the barriers between the classes and the masses.”