Carrie Fisher Quotes

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's...

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

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...

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer....

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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

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

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited...

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass o...

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it a...

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are d...

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into word...

What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poe...

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's abou...

Instant gratification takes too long.

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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

Suzanne sat in Roger's chair, staring at the reflection of her dread morning face. Roger browsed his...

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it lik...

You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always...

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA....

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to t...

If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as s...

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, what...

Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given...

There are a couple of reasons why I take comfort in being able to put all this in my own vernacular ...

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates reli...

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is s...

To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never kn...

I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe no...

Clothes falling away signals a situation that I'll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don't...

I thought you might supply some tendernessI lackedBut out of all the things I offered you took mybre...

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's worl...

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely ...

Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there a...

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destinati...

The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt.

While she'd been drying her hair, she'd come up with a new message for her answering machine - "I'm ...

It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straigh...

She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to t...

I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through m...

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.