Carrie Fisher Quotes
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Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.
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I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
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The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
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If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
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Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir
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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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A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
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I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
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I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.
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I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.
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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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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 have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
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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.
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I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
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I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
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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.
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I just admire my mother very much.
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I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
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I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.
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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 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 was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.