Carrie Fisher Quotes
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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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Leia follows me like a vague smell.
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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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Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.
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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!
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Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.
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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.
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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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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
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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 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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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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Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
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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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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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I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.
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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
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If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.
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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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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.