quotes by Carrie Fisher

"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)

"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

"You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?"
— 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)

"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)

"Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line."
— Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge)

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

"I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere."
— Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge)

"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)

"Good anecdote--bad reality."
— Carrie Fisher

"Immediate gratification takes too long."
— Carrie Fisher

"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)

"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)

"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)

" "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

"My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer."
— Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge)