Quotes By Carrie Fisher

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.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

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

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.

Instant gratification takes too long.

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

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.

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 really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

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

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 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.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

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

I don't want to be a victim.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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.

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

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

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

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

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

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.