Explore Quotes by Carrie Fisher

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.