Carrie Fisher Quotes

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

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

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 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.

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.

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

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

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

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

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

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

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.

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.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

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

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

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

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

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.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

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.

I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

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 rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

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

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

I did masses of opiates religiously.

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.

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.

Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

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

I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.