Quotes By Carrie Fisher

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 think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

I don't want to be a victim.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The manic end of is a lot of fun.

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

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.

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.

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

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.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

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.

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.