100 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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."

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

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

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.

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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Instant gratification takes too long. (Quote Meaning)

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

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

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

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

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.

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. (Meaning)

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

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

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

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.

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person. (Meaning)

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

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

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

A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.

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

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

I think that now most people know someone in their family that is coping with something, but there is still a tremendous amount of shame - that one is still regarded as a defective unit ... if only they would pull up their bootstraps - they are only indulging their emotions, everybody's moody, blah, blah, blah.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time. (Meaning)

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

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

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

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

Drugs made me feel more normal. (Meaning)

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

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

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.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

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

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

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

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

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

All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.

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.

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

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

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

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.

I don't want to be a victim. (Meaning)

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

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

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Never love for me, only obsession.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

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.

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

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

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

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

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

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

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

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

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.

There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

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