Carrie Fisher Quotes
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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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I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.
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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
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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 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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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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You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.
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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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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 shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
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Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
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If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
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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 into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
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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.
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
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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 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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Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
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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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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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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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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.