Carrie Fisher Quotes - Page 7

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.

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

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

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.

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

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

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

In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

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

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

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

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 have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Never love for me, only obsession.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

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