Top 60 Carrie Fisher Quotes

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

It really annoys me that I’m vain, but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to discard that tendency.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

He’s a very strange guy, my father. I can’t get mad at him because he’s so adorable.

She has been more than a mother than me – not much, but definitely more… She’s been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor… Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I’m sorry to say this again, but let’s face it – the Force is with you.

I think I do overshare. It’s my way of trying to understand myself.

Some of my memories will never return. They are lost – along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I’m very sane about how crazy I am.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in ‘Singin’ In The Rain.’

That’s why ‘Star Wars’ is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.

I’m in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say ‘Get younger,’ because that’s how easy it is.

We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, ‘Oh, you look good,’ and you listen for them to say you’ve lost weight. It’s never ‘How are you?’ or ‘You seem happy!’

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me – or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.’

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn’t know was George.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn’t know. It was something I always did.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

One of the great things to pretend is that you’re not only alright, you’re in great shape. Now to have that come true – I’ve actually gone on stage depressed and that’s worked its magic on me, ’cause if I can convince you that I’m alright, then maybe I can convince me.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I’m still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

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.

I don’t like looking at myself. I have such bad body dysmorphia.

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There’s no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don’t think you have to worry about it. But you do.

I’ve seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they’re wearing makeup so they can look young, and I don’t think that’s good. They have all these products now called – wait, what’s it called, it’s my favorite – youth suppressant, or age go away; they don’t work.

You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there’s something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it’s not something that you’re in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

I overheard people saying, ‘She thinks she’s so great because she’s Debbie Reynolds’ daughter!’ And I didn’t like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

If my life wasn’t funny, it would just be true, and that’s unacceptable.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

She’s an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much.

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn’t gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it’s going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.

I always kept a diary – not a diary like, ‘Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!’ I’d just write.

I don’t want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I’m not interested in doing that anymore.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

I started out doing my mother’s nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

In the Fifties, my parents were known as ‘America’s sweethearts’. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

Over time, I’ve paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I’ve gone through.

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That’s my word for it.

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don’t know me who gossip about me. You can’t believe the things I’ve heard.

I watched my parents’ fame diminish – as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we’re kind of cooked.

I’ll never be known for my work with boundaries.

It creates community when you talk about private things.

I don’t want to be a victim.

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I’m gonna do, what I can do, what I can’t do. I’ve been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don’t have to. But if I did, I’d be able to do it. I’m not going to enjoy dying, but there’s not much prep for that.

People want me to say that I’m sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

My mother’s career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone’s buddy, always smiling for the cameras.