Carrie Fisher famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Positive #Anger

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?
-- Carrie Fisher

#Struggle #Situation

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

#Inspirational #Success #Learning

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!
-- Carrie Fisher

#Weekend #Vegas #Upset

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

#Heart #Funny Relationship #Cuz

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

#Easy #Negotiation

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

#Funny #People #Old Age

Instant gratification takes too long.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Women #Humor #Long

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Inspirational #Being True

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

#Ashamed #Ill #Better Me

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

#Bipolar #Being Free #Three

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.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Pregnancy #World #Wonder

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Party #Two #World

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

#Actors #May #Behave

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.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Fun #Sleep #Brain

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Pain #Addiction #Mind

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Drug #Sids #Problem

I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.
-- Carrie Fisher

#New York #Simple #Talking

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Waiting #Looks #Done

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Forgiveness #Revenge #May

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Thinking #Long #Childhood

I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Giving #Advice #Motto

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Hurt #Pain #Knowing

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Jobs #Party #Way

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Smart #Unhappy #Enough

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Way #Introversion #Sociability

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Mean #Emotional #Addiction

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
-- Carrie Fisher

#Running #Pregnancy #Might

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports ...
-- Carrie Fisher

#Sports #Running #Office