476 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

She liked going to the gym, or rather, she liked having been to the gym, and the only way to have been was to go.

Kidding yourself doesn’t require that you have a sense of humor. But.

Trying relentlessly to make you love me, but I don’t want the love – I quite prefer the quest for it. The challenge. I am always disappointed with someone who loves me – how perfect can he be if he can’t see through 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.

I was a lucky girl–without the self-esteem to feel it, or the wherewithal to enjoy what there was to enjoy of it and then let go.

You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other – the side that makes big things small or small things big.

My want can only do so much in terms of changing what’s actually occuring with other people, and I’d like to keep it that way. I don’t want to feel that if I had wanted something more, or had said one other thing, or had worn a different dress, or had been more mysterious, or more open, then I would get something or someone I wouldn’t get otherwise.

When we started filming, I tried to keep myself well under the radar so that the powers that be wouldn’t notice that I hadn’t lost the weight they’d asked me to. I only weighed 110 pounds to begin with, but I carried about half of them in my face. I think they may have put those buns on me so they might function as bookends, keeping my face right where it was, between my ears and no bigger.

So Pat showed me a variety of exotic looks – from Russian princesses to Swedish maids. I looked at the images, slightly alarmed. There was no Lady Gaga to guide me.