Carrie Fisher's Quotes

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

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

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The manic end of is a lot of fun.

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

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

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

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.