Carrie Fisher Quotes
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
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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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My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
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I like that - the "you-ish" character.
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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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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 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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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.
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And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
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Leia follows me like a vague smell.
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Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.
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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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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.
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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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I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.
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I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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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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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
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I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.
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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.