I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.

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

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.

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

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

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right.

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

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

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

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

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

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

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

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

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

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

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

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

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

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

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

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