Carrie Fisher Quotes - Page 6

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

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

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

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.

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

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

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.

I like having written better than I like having acted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.