Carrie Fisher Quotes

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

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

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

Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

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

You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

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.

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

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

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

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

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

Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

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

It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."

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

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

[I was filmed] against a blue screen [in the Star Wars]. All the rest came later, in Lucasland. They did have me take gun lessons, though. I went to the same guys who taught Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver.

I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.

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

I don't really understand it - marriage.

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

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.

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 am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

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

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