39 Carrie Fisher Quotes

Carrie Fisher quotes

1. Instant gratification takes too long.

2. 'That's the way it works in movies,' said Suzanne. 'Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?' You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect.'

3. I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise....

4. When someone told her 'You're the only girl who I know who compliments herself' she replied 'I think it's sweet that I do it, though'

5. Mostly, you write a script and someone's gonna rewrite you. They get hundreds of-not hundred but they get ten writers to write something. If you have a big budget, you can go and get a lot of people to write on script .... I just actually heard that somebody said, 'Well, your screenplay got bought and now someone like Carrie Fisher will come in and rewrite you.' And I feel terrible, you know, because that's not what I mean to do. My idea was never to raid something and trash it, you know. 'Cause that - that's more work for me!

6. I have gone to the set and you're kind of around in this-it's kind of combat writing when you do rewriting and stuff, and I feel like it's a kind of ambulance chasing. Recently, I did this kind of a (laughing) where you go, 'Oh, my God, it's bleeding from the second act. Quick! Quick! Give me a suture! No, give me the paddles! This is the third act that's having a heart attack!! The star is coming. The star is coming. And it's this incredibly intense process!'

7. As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

8. I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

9. I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself - Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.

10. I want to find myself before somebody bigger does.

11. I'm having my DNA fumigated.

12. Maturity: A stoic response to endless reality.

13. You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

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

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

3. It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.

4. 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.

5. I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.

6. I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

7. 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.

8. It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

9. He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

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

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

12. Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

13. 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.

14. Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

15. 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.

16. A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.

17. I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

18. I don't really understand it - marriage.

19. I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

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

21. Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

22. My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.

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

24. Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

25. I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

26. There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.