'They don't want to hire all of me -- only about three-quarters! nothing changes: It's an appearance-driven thing. I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'get younger,' because that's how easy it is.

Carrie Fisher

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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.

Carrie Fisher

first-time father firsts

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Carrie Fisher

sports men sex

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

Carrie Fisher

actresses way thinking

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.

Carrie Fisher

what-if guy worry

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

Carrie Fisher

private-things community people

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

Carrie Fisher

stronger men breakfast

For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.

Carrie Fisher

stars war two

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

anchors pie baby

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

Carrie Fisher

manic-depression judgment world

My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.

Carrie Fisher

husband mom children

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

Carrie Fisher

addiction emotional mean

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

Carrie Fisher

known boundaries

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

Carrie Fisher

fun mean way

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Carrie Fisher

know-how situation struggle

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

guy new-york latin

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carrie Fisher

media want talking

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

Carrie Fisher

buns white hair

Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.

Carrie Fisher

sides looks thinking

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

Carrie Fisher

sociability introversion way

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

Carrie Fisher

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