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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I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.
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My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.
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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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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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Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
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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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Leia follows me like a vague smell.
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Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.
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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 quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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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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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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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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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 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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For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.
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Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.
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The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.
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I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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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.