Carrie Fisher Quotes - Page 5

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

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

I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

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

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

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

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

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

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

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

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

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

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

Drugs made me feel more normal.

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.

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

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.