Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Carrie Fisher
" All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us. "
Us
Looking
Change
" Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. "
Negotiation
Easy
Whether
" He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable. "
Mad
Him
Guy
" I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. "
Reading
Writing
Know
" I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people. "
Human
Other
Am
" 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. "
I Am
You
Say
" 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. "
Think
Christmas
Good
" If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable. "
True
Be True
My Life
" If you claim something, you can own it. "
You
Something
Claim
" I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital. "
Lead
Will
Most
" 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. "
Writing
Words
Experience
" 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. "
Never
Three
Touch
" I'm very sane about how crazy I am. "
I Am
Sane
How
" Instant gratification takes too long. "
Long
Too
Instant
" I outlasted my problems. "
Problems
" 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 been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that. "
Myself
Dying
Know
" I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.' "
Rain
Famous
Father
" 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. "
Light
Doctor
World
" Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity. "
Because
Mistakes
Drag
" No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic. "
Much
Loss
Like
" 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. "
Star
Yes
Going
" People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach. "
Birds
Beach
See
" Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay. "
Feeling
Defeat
Lost
" There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self. "
Self
Struggle
Tea
" What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's not a man that can go and say, 'Look, can you get me in any faster? I'm Mickey Mouse.' Whereas I can go in and say, 'Look, could you get me a table faster? I'm Princess Leia.' "
Man
Say
Princess
" You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you. "
Sorry
Face
Choose
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark