Carrie Fisher > Quotes

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
― Carrie Fisher

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.”
― Carrie Fisher

“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."

Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“Instant gratification takes too long.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.”
― Carrie Fisher

“I thought I would inaugurate a Bipolar Pride Day. You know, with floats and parades and stuff! On the floats we would get the depressives, and they wouldn’t even have to leave their beds - we’d just roll their beds out of their houses, and they could continue staring off miserably into space. And then for the manics, we’d have the manic marching band, with manics laughing and talking and shopping and fucking and making bad judgment calls.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“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”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person. ”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“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?”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Good anecdote--bad reality.”
― Carrie Fisher

“And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“Do you or do you not like wearing earrings in your mouth that will one day smell like your ex-boyfriend's dick?”
― Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful

“From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“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.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Immediate gratification takes too long.”
― Carrie Fisher

“The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“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.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?”
― 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

“Sometimes she’d just walk around the city alone. Watch the people, smell the food, the bus exhaust, the smoke coming up through the grating. She’d feel protected somehow, found a sense of belonging in the hectic sprawl. And the next minute she’d feel like the one who couldn’t break the code, hit the right stride, catch the wave. Potholes and traffic and bums, oh my. With all the honking and the hum of movement, the living, breathing blur of noise gently pressing in on her, the great purr of the Metropolitan Cat turning into a dull roar. She’d feel so silent on the inside, her head as quiet as a stretch of sand, a cathedral silently worshipping the life that was all around her, storing it up for later when she needed some 'too much' to draw upon.”
― Carrie Fisher, Surrender the Pink

“Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“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.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“That's the way it works in movies. Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?' You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“But let's face it, the world of sex is weird no matter how you look at it. I mean-fourteen hours after you've had your face smashed into someone's genitals, you're walking down the street with the boy as though that were all "just fine, thank you, how are you!”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful

“Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“I told him about the Oedipal thing, about my father leaving when I was very young so I knew how to pine for men, but not how to love them. So he said, 'You'd probably would have been perfect for somebody in World War Two. You'd meet him and then he would get shipped overseas.' And I said, 'Maybe on our date I could drop you off and you could enlist,' and he said he would just got out and rent a uniform. So he was very funny.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“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.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“I don't think you ever get to relax. I mean, sure there's a couple of people who could, but I bet they don't. Because by the time they get to where they could relax, they don't. Because by the time they get to where they could relax, they've gotten completely used to not being able to. How do you just suddenly become somebody who relaxes? The kind of ambition you need to get to that place is not relaxing. It's searing. I think there's probably something about living your whole life in a popularity contest -- trying to get people to like you who you couldn't give a flying fuck about -- that kills relaxation.”
― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

“And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

“I signed my likeness away. Every time I look in the mirror, I have to send Lucas a couple of bucks.”
― Carrie Fisher

“As we all know, there is no underwear in space.”
― Carrie Fisher