476 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

George says that if you look at the person someone chooses to have “a relationship” with, you’ll see what they think of themselves. So Harrison is what I think of myself. It’s hardly a relationship, but nevertheless he is a choice. I examined all the options and chose the most likely to leave. No emotional investments. Never love for me – only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them – my choices are always on the run.

Everyone else got to wear their regular outfits from the first movie. I had to wear my outfit that Jabba picked out for me. Jabba the Hutt – the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt – the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women’s looks in his world, on his planet and the next. In wax, I would forever be outfitted by outlaw Jabba. In wax and out, I would forever be stone-faced.

Someone’s summered in my stomach, Someone’s fallen through my legs, To make an infant omelet, Simply scramble sperm and eggs.

I got real acting experience, which I’d never had partly because I still wasn’t so sure that I wanted to be an actress. But maybe it was something I could do without a high school diploma or accredited skills of any kind whatsoever – a job that would pay me enough of a wage to let me go out into the world and start what I would laughingly come to call my own actual life.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don’t like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, “are you okay?” And then you think, “Oh, maybe I’m not.”

I could’ve given you so much but you wanted so little.

We often assume that when the surface offers so little the depth must be unfathomable.

I had in no way intended to risk my life. I just wanted to turn the sound down and smooth all of my sharp corners.

I’ll never be known for my work with boundaries.