Carrie Fisher Quotes
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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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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.
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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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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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My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.
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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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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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I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.
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Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
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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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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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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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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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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.
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You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?
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My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.
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So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
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A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.
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I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.
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I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.