Carrie Fisher Quotes
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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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I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.
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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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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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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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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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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.
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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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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.
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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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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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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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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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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 don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.
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Leia follows me like a vague smell.
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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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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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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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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 quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!