Top 100 Carrie Fisher Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, Aww. They've just been told.
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#3. A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
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#4. What's the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little
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#5. I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.
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#6. Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
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#7. You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.
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#8. All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.
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#9. Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.
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#10. You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.
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#11. Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
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#12. Anyway, at a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become worried about my obviously ever-increasing drug ingestion. So she ended up doing what any concerned parent would do. She called Cary Grant.
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#13. There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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#14. It's not nice being inside my head. It's a nice place to visit but I don't want to live in here. It's too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.
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#15. So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
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#16. But George actually does have a point, because you know when they send out those space probes and they beam back footage of what it looks like up there? All those films ever show are sand and rocks. I've never seen a bra in any of that footage.
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#17. But vows seemed ridiculous -- it was hard enough to keep appointments.
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#18. Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.
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#19. Not that writing on my notepads managed to actually empty my mind - though some would argue - but I was grateful to relieve the overflow.
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#20. Kidding yourself doesn't require that you have a sense of humor. But a sense of humor comes in handy for almost everything else.
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#21. Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.
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#22. Do you or do you not like wearing earrings in your mouth that will one day smell like your ex-boyfriend's dick?
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#23. I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.
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#24. I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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#25. Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
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#26. It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
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#27. I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.
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#28. 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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#29. You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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#30. And I ultimately not only addressed it, I named my two moods Roy and Pam. Roy is Rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood, and Pam is Sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs. (Pam stands for "piss and moan.") One mood is the meal, and the next mood is the check.
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#31. 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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#32. The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
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#33. I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions
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#34. I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.
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#35. I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.
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#36. Samuel Johnson once said that remarrying (and he's not talking about marrying the same person here, just remarrying) is the "triumph of hope over experience." So for me, remarrying the same person is the triumph of nostalgia over judgment.
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#37. I was barely old enough to vote but I could easily enlist in the army, and I enlisted into the army of him.
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#38. 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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#39. I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
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#40. My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.
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#41. I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
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#42. As we all know, there is no underwear in space.
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#43. Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.
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#44. I liked being Princess Leia. Or Princess Leia's being me. Over time I thought that we'd melded into one. I don't think you could think of Leia without my lurking in that thought somewhere.
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#45. I was a voracious reader, but part of what that taught me was that I was nowhere near as scholarly as I wanted to be. I was precocious, but how many years beyond your teens can you be called that with sincerity?
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#46. 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.
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#47. Well, when the Enquirer becomes your standard for living, you're in a lot of trouble! When
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#48. 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.
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#49. My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
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#50. If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.
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#51. The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything ... I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
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#54. I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."
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#55. I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
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#56. Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir
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#57. 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.
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#58. Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.
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#59. Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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#60. The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to.
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#61. The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world & show business is a man's meal with women generously sprinkled through it like over-qualified spice.
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#62. Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
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#63. You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.
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#64. I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.
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#65. To make him important in one's life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.
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#66. I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
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#67. I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
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#68. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
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#69. He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
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#71. Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
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#72. I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
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#73. What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.
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#74. I love their being as bound up in their history as they are, preserving their buildings instead of razing them to the ground to make way for another big beige building with lots of windows to throw yourself screaming from.
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#75. Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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#77. He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.
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#78. 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.
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#79. My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.
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#80. My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.
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#81. I Googled myself without lubricant. I don't recommend it.
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#82. If I'd known about all the masturbating I would generate - well, that would've been extraordinarily weird from many angles and I'm glad it didn't come up, as it were.
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#83. I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
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#84. Perpetual celebrity - the kind where any mention of you will interest a significant percentage of the public until the day you die, even if that day comes decades after your last real contribution to the culture - is exceedingly rare, reserved for the likes of Muhammad Ali.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
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#87. I don't just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you've ever encountered.
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#88. There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
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#90. I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.
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#91. I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,
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#93. I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
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#94. Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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#95. It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
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#98. You know the bad thing about being a survivor ... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
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#99. The second reason I decided to get ECT is that I was depressed. Profoundly depressed. Part of this could be attributed to my mood disorder, which was, no doubt, probably the source of the emotional intensity. That's what can take simple sadness and turn it into sadness squared.
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#100. I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
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