Carrie Fisher Quotes

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

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

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

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

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.

If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

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

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

I don't want to be a victim.

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.

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

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Never love for me, only obsession.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

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.

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

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.

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

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

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

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

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

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

I did masses of opiates religiously.

I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

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