Carrie Fisher Quotes
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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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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
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I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.
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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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I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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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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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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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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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 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 think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.
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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.
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I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.
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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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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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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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What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.
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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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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.