Carrie Fisher Quotes

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.
Carrie Fisher

Christmas, Good, Kindness

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

Waiting, Person, Die

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.
Carrie Fisher

Free, Times, Three

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.
Carrie Fisher

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.
Carrie Fisher

Great, True, Actually

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

Thought, Difficult, Off

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

Amazing, Love, Find

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.
Carrie Fisher

Audience, Performing

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
Carrie Fisher

Mind, Body, Side

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

Him, Light, State

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
Carrie Fisher

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
Carrie Fisher

Best, Acting, Left

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

Wrong, Exciting, Reasons

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Carrie Fisher

Drugs made me feel more normal.
Carrie Fisher

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
Carrie Fisher

Everything, Another, Easy

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
Carrie Fisher

Father, Him, Strange

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.
Carrie Fisher

Life, Battle, House

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
Carrie Fisher

Human, Discreet

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

Bring, Ashamed, Ill

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.
Carrie Fisher

Love, Words, Reading

I don't want to be a victim.
Carrie Fisher

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

State, Lead, Mental

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.
Carrie Fisher

Experience, Powerful, Writing

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
Carrie Fisher

Two, Sometimes, Mood

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Nationality: American

Born: October 21, 1956

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