Carrie Fisher Quotes
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
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My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.
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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 still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
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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'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
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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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I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.
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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 like having written better than I like having acted.
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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.
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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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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
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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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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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Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.
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I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.
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Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.
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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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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.