H. A. L. Fisher Quotes

I like having written better than I like having acted.

Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.

I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

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.

If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

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

I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.

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

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

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.

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

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.

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

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

[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.

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

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

I just admire my mother very much.

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

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

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

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

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

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

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

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.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

Shadow turned. Her eyes were wet; she smiled at him wanley. "I'll be she loved you.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.

There's a good reason catas say me-ow rather than we-ow or you-ow.

Nothing means more to me than helping my team win.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.