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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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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One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
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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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What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.
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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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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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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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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.
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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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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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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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I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.
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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.
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For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.
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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 do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.
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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.