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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
Carrie Fisher
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
Carrie Fisher
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I like having written better than I like having acted.
Carrie Fisher
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Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.
Carrie Fisher
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I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.
Carrie Fisher
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All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.
Carrie Fisher
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The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.
Carrie Fisher
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Drugs made me feel more normal.
Carrie Fisher
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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
Carrie Fisher
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You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.
Carrie Fisher
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Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
Carrie Fisher
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There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher
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If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
Carrie Fisher
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I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.
Carrie Fisher
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Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
Carrie Fisher
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My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
Carrie Fisher
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I like that - the "you-ish" character.
Carrie Fisher
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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
Carrie Fisher
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The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.
Carrie Fisher
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You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
Carrie Fisher
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The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.
Carrie Fisher
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Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
Carrie Fisher
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Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.
Carrie Fisher
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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
Carrie Fisher
