Carrie Fisher Quotes - Page 8

I did masses of opiates religiously.

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

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.

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

Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.

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

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

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

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

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

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

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.