Carrie Fisher Quotes

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Carrie Fisher

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 21, 1956

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

Carrie Fisher

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

Carrie Fisher

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

Carrie Fisher

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.

Carrie Fisher

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Carrie Fisher

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Carrie Fisher

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

Carrie Fisher

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.

Carrie Fisher

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

Carrie Fisher

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.

Carrie Fisher

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.

Carrie Fisher

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

Carrie Fisher

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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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.

Carrie Fisher

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

Carrie Fisher

I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20. And they're not just doing some goofy sequel, like, to service the hunger of it. It actually has been thought out and it has integrity and they took it seriously, which they didn't have to do, you know? It's hard to do, given the appetite and the angles from which everybody's coming at it.

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

Carrie Fisher

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

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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.

Carrie Fisher

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.

Carrie Fisher