Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.
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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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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 have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
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I like that - the "you-ish" character.
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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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I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
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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 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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Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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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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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
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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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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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Leia follows me like a vague smell.
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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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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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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 think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.
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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.