Top 289 Quotes & Sayings by Carrie Fisher - Page 2

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20. And they're not just doing some goofy sequel, like, to service the hunger of it. It actually has been thought out and it has integrity and they took it seriously, which they didn't have to do, you know? It's hard to do, given the appetite and the angles from which everybody's coming at it.

It's difficult to know what to say to someone whose partner has cheated on them.

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

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.

What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's not a man that can go and say, 'Look, can you get me in any faster? I'm Mickey Mouse.' Whereas I can go in and say, 'Look, could you get me a table faster? I'm Princess Leia.'

I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

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

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.

I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath.

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

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

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

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.

I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.

If you claim something, you can own it.

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

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. 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 creates community when you talk about private things.

I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!

It can't hurt to go to the people you love, whose blood type courses through your veins and whose DNA, from a certain angle, contains many of the same markings as yours. You don't have to take their advice, but let them share their version of solutions to life's difficulties. Good or bad - it could be interesting.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

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.

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.

People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I don't like looking at myself. I have such bad body dysmorphia.

She's an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

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

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!

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

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

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.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

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.

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."

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

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

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

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

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