Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
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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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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
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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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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
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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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I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.
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What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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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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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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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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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
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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 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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If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.
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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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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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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.