Carrie Fisher Quotes
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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
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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 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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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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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 do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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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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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'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 always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.
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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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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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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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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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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 like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.
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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.