Carrie Fisher Quotes
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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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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'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.
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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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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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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 do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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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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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.
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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 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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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 think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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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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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 quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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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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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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Leia follows me like a vague smell.