Explore Quotes by Carrie Fisher

Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.

He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.

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.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!