Carrie Fisher Quotes

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

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.

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 like having written better than I like having acted.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 don't really understand it - marriage.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

I just admire my mother very much.

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

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

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

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.

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

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

I thought you might supply some tendernessI lackedBut out of all the things I offered you took mybreath awayand now I want it back

To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.

I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.

Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either.

I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through me?

If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn't as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was.

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.

The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt.