Quotes By Carrie Fisher

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.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Drugs made me feel more normal.

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

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.

Instant gratification takes too long.

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.

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.