Carrie Fisher Quotes
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What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.
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Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
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I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.
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I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's how people write. So that's why I think it's sometimes easier for me to write for actors 'cause I know what's frustrating about, you know, sentences that come out just perfect. Well, who talks like that? And who of us don't overlap each other? Except on the radio, hopefully.
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My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
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I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.
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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
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In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.
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My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.
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When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.
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My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.
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I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
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You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.
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Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir
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Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
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I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.
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I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!
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I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.
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From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
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I just admire my mother very much.
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I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.
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I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
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No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.
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My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.