You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift. Carrie Fisher More Quotes by Carrie Fisher More Quotes From Carrie Fisher [My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash. Carrie Fisher grandparent texas white Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case. Carrie Fisher mother father book I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication. Carrie Fisher prescriptions someday medication I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug. Carrie Fisher shampoo rivalry I don't want to be a victim. Carrie Fisher victim want 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. Carrie Fisher rest-of-your-life drug young Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else. Carrie Fisher done waiting looks 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. Carrie Fisher opinion able nice I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. Carrie Fisher rodeo streets smart 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. Carrie Fisher issues bother thinking I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me. Carrie Fisher shotguns brother stuff Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread. Carrie Fisher bakeries bread noses All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh! Carrie Fisher caviar onions eggs 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. Carrie Fisher spy battle house He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead. Carrie Fisher sharks eye moving 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 envy people interesting I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress. Carrie Fisher truth-is thinking My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer. Carrie Fisher life-is-like lasts forgotten Never love for me, only obsession. Carrie Fisher obsession Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run. Carrie Fisher obsession choices running