Carrie Fisher Quotes
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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
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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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He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.
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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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I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.
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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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The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.
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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 a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.
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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.
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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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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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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
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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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My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
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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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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 don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.
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Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.
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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.