Top 289 Quotes & Sayings by Carrie Fisher - Page 5

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

I did masses of opiates religiously.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I just admire my mother very much.

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

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 hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.