Quote

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Carrie Fisher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carrie Fisher
Age: 60 †
Born: 1956
Born: October 21
Died: 2016
Died: December 27
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Script Doctor
Singer
Spokesperson
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Burbank
California
Carrie Frances Fisher
Involved
Particular
Survivor
Situation
Situations
Getting
Anymore
Show
Gift
Difficult
Continue
Shows
Thought
Interested

More quotes by Carrie Fisher

Image
A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Carrie Fisher
Image
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.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
Carrie Fisher
Image
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
Carrie Fisher
Image
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
Carrie Fisher
Image
All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.
Carrie Fisher
Image
People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
Carrie Fisher
Image
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.
Carrie Fisher
Image
My favorite one to see is the metal bikini on men.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
Carrie Fisher
Image
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.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.
Carrie Fisher
Image
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.
Carrie Fisher