Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
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I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
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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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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
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I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.
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As we all know, there is no underwear in space.
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Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.
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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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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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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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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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You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
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I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
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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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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
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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