Carrie Fisher Quotes

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, ‘What party?’ And L.A. is the ‘What party?’ capital of the world.

If you claim something, you can own it.

She has been more than a mother than me – not much, but definitely more… She’s been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor… Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.

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’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.

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

I think I do overshare. It’s my way of trying to understand myself.

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

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

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

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!

Some of my memories will never return. They are lost – along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

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

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

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

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

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

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

Instant gratification takes too long.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I’m sorry to say this again, but let’s face it – the Force is with you.

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

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.

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.

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I’m gonna do, what I can do, what I can’t do. I’ve been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don’t have to. But if I did, I’d be able to do it. I’m not going to enjoy dying, but there’s not much prep for 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.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

It creates community when you talk about private things.

I outlasted my problems.

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.

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.

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.

The manic end of is a lot of fun.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond – topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in ‘Singin’ In The Rain.’

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’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.

It’s the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

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

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.

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.