Carrie Fisher

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

— Carrie Fisher

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

— Carrie Fisher

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

— Carrie Fisher

“Heaven's no place for one who thrives on hell.”

— Carrie Fisher

I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

— Carrie Fisher

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

— Carrie Fisher

I like having written better than I like having acted.

— Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

— Carrie Fisher

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

— Carrie Fisher

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

— Carrie Fisher

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

— Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off…

— Carrie Fisher

“I knew my name. So I let him know I knew it. 'Yeah,' I said in a voice very like mine. Mine…

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were…

— Carrie Fisher

“Do you or do you not like wearing earrings in your mouth that will one day smell like your ex-boyfriend's dick?”

— Carrie Fisher

“So maybe this was another example of nothing ever being just one thing. No motive is pure. No one is good or…

— Carrie Fisher

“I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while…

— Carrie Fisher

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though,…

— Carrie Fisher

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations.…

— Carrie Fisher

“Samuel Johnson once said that remarrying (and he’s not talking about marrying the same person here, just remarrying) is the “triumph of…

— Carrie Fisher

“So it stood to reason that if I could disappoint my own father—if I couldn’t get my own father to love me…

— Carrie Fisher

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of…

— Carrie Fisher

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought…

— Carrie Fisher

I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.

— Carrie Fisher

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.

— Carrie Fisher

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

— Carrie Fisher

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

— Carrie Fisher

Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

“I said, “Instant gratification takes too long.” The glib martyr.”

— Carrie Fisher

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

— Carrie Fisher

I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny.

— Carrie Fisher

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

— Carrie Fisher

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher