Carrie Fisher Quotes
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The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.
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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 got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.
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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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My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.
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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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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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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've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.
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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
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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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Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
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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'm very sane about how crazy I am.
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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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My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.
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I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
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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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If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
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I just admire my mother very much.