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Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.
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I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.
Carrie Fisher
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I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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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.
Carrie Fisher -
I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.
Carrie Fisher -
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.
Carrie Fisher -
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
Carrie Fisher
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
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I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
Carrie Fisher -
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.
Carrie Fisher -
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?
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I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.
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Good anecdote--bad reality.
Carrie Fisher
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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!
Carrie Fisher -
I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.
Carrie Fisher -
I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
Carrie Fisher -
My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.
Carrie Fisher -
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.
Carrie Fisher -
My mother is an immensely powerful woman.
Carrie Fisher
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Carrie Fisher -
You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.
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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
Carrie Fisher -
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.
Carrie Fisher