Carrie Fisher Quotes

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

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.

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

You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

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

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

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.

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

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

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

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

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

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

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

I did Google myself recentle - without lubricant. I don't recommend it.

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.

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

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

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

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.

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

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.

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

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

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.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

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.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

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.

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

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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

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

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.

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

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

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 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.