Top 289 Quotes & Sayings by Carrie Fisher - Page 4

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.

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

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

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

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

This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!

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 don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

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

If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

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

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.

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

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

I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

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

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

Good anecdote--bad reality.

Never love for me, only obsession.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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