Carrie Fisher Quotes

This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

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

I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

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

I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

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

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.

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

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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

I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.

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.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

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

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

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

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

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

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.

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

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

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.

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

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

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

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

You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.

I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.