Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
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From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
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I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.
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I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.
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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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I just admire my mother very much.
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If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
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I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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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.
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I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.
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I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.
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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.
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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.
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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As we all know, there is no underwear in space.
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Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.
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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.
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You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.