Carrie Fisher Quotes

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

I think that now most people know someone in their family that is coping with something, but there is still a tremendous amount of shame - that one is still regarded as a defective unit ... if only they would pull up their bootstraps - they are only indulging their emotions, everybody's moody, blah, blah, blah.

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

Drugs made me feel more normal.

All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

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.

My favorite one to see is the metal bikini on men.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.

I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

I like that - the "you-ish" character.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.

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.

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.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

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.

I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's how people write. So that's why I think it's sometimes easier for me to write for actors 'cause I know what's frustrating about, you know, sentences that come out just perfect. Well, who talks like that? And who of us don't overlap each other? Except on the radio, hopefully.

Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!

I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right.

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.