Carrie Fisher Quotes
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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'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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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 didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
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I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].
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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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My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.
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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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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
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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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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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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
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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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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
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I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.
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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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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 have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
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Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
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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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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!
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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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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.