Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.
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I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.
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My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
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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 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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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
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Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.
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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
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What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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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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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
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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 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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[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.
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My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.
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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 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.
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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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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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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
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If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.