Carrie Fisher Quotes
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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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Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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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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I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.
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The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.
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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.
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He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.
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My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
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I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.
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It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
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My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.
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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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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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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
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All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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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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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
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I like having written better than I like having acted.
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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.