Carrie Fisher Quotes - Page 9

[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.

There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

I just admire my mother very much.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.

I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.

[I was filmed] against a blue screen [in the Star Wars]. All the rest came later, in Lucasland. They did have me take gun lessons, though. I went to the same guys who taught Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver.

I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.

What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

I like that - the "you-ish" character.

I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.