Carrie Fisher Quotes
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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
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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?
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All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.
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I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.
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Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
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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.
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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Good anecdote--bad reality.
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
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I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.
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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.
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I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.
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For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
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I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
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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."
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I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.
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What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.
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The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
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I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.