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Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.
I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.
You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.
I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.
I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.
I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.
In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.
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.
You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.
I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
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.
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
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.
I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
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.
My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
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.
You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.
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.
It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.
People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.
Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.
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.
It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.
Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.
When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.
And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.
What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.
I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.