Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.
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Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
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I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions
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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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Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.
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I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.
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Drugs made me feel more normal.
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What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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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.
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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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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
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If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.
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One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
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Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.
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Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.
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I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
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You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?
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My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
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If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
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Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.