Top 289 Quotes & Sayings by Carrie Fisher
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Last updated on September 9, 2024.
Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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.
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
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.
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 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.
I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.
I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
I've seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they're wearing makeup so they can look young, and I don't think that's good. They have all these products now called - wait, what's it called, it's my favorite - youth suppressant, or age go away; they don't work.
She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.
I outlasted my problems.
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.
The manic end of is a lot of fun.
I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Leia follows me like a vague smell.
I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
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.
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Instant gratification takes too long.
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.
What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.
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.'
I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
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 don't want to be a victim.
We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'
It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
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.
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 was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.
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.
If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.
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.
If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for 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.
All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.
I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.
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.
Writing is a very calming thing for me.
Drugs made me feel more normal.
Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
I think I do overshare. It's my way of trying to understand myself.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.
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.
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