Quotes from Carrie Fisher

It's difficult to know what to say to someone whose partner has cheated on them.

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

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.

I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath.

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

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20. And they're not just doing some goofy sequel, like, to service the hunger of it. It actually has been thought out and it has integrity and they took it seriously, which they didn't have to do, you know? It's hard to do, given the appetite and the angles from which everybody's coming at it.

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.

That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

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

If you claim something, you can own it.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.

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.

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.

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

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.