Carrie Fisher

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.'

I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

I don't like looking at myself. I have such bad body dysmorphia.

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

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.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Instant gratification takes too long.

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.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.

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

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

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.

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