Parenting Quotes by Carrie Fisher

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

— Carrie Fisher

I just admire my mother very much.

— Carrie Fisher

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

— Carrie Fisher

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever…

— Carrie Fisher

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

— Carrie Fisher

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my…

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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

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

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

“And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual.”

— Carrie Fisher

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

— Carrie Fisher

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I…

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

— 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

All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated…

— Carrie Fisher

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first…

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My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust…

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There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life…

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In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the…

— Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they…

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“I told him about the Oedipal thing, about my father leaving when I was very young so I knew how to pine…

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“forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was.…

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Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I…

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

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I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used…

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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first…

— Carrie Fisher

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

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

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My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

— Carrie Fisher

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds,…

— Carrie Fisher