Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."
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[I was filmed] against a blue screen [in the Star Wars]. All the rest came later, in Lucasland. They did have me take gun lessons, though. I went to the same guys who taught Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver.
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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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I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.
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My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
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My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.
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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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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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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
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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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You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.
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I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.
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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've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.
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I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.
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I just admire my mother very much.
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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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Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.
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I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!
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I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.
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I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.
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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.