Carrie Fisher Quotes
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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
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What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.
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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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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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If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
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I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
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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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I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.
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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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You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.
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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.
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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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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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I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
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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 guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.
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I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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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.