Carrie Fisher Quotes - Page 3

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

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.

For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

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 quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

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.

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

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

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

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

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 always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.

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.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.