Carrie Fisher Quotes

“The one I wore to kill Jabba (my favorite moment in my own personal film history), which I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.”

Source: The Princess Diarist

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

Source: The Princess Diarist

“There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.”

Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking

“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”

“I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.”

Source: Wishful Drinking

“What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.”

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”

Source: Postcards from the Edge

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

Source: The Princess Diarist

“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?”

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.”

Source: Wishful Drinking

“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.”

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”

Source: Wishful Drinking

“Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.”

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.”

Source: Wishful Drinking

“Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.”

Source: The Princess Diarist

“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”

Source: Postcards from the Edge

Carrie Fisher book Shockaholic

Source: Shockaholic

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

“Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.”

Source: Wishful Drinking

“We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.”

Source: The Princess Diarist

“I’m a hick,” I recall saying to him. “No,” Harrison answered. “You think you’re less than you are. You’re a smart hick.” And then, “You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.”

Source: Postcards from the Edge

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

Source: The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher book The Best Awful There Is

Source: The Best Awful

“Good anecdote--bad reality.”

“"That's the way it works in movies," said Suzanne. "Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?'”

“Things are getting worse faster than I can lower my standards.”

You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect."
Postcards from the Edge (1987)

“I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise….”

on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" http://ew.com/article/2009/09/04/craig-ferguson-jason-ritter/

“I Googled myself without lubricant. I don't recommend it.”

Postcards from the Edge (1987)

“I have gone to the set and you’re kind of around in this—it’s kind of combat writing when you do rewriting and stuff, and I feel like it’s a kind of ambulance chasing. Recently, I did this kind of a (laughing) where you go, “Oh, my God, it’s bleeding from the second act. Quick! Quick! Give me a suture! No, give me the paddles! This is the third act that’s having a heart attack!! The star is coming! The star is coming!"”

on The Late Show with David Letterman http://www.u.tv/Entertainment/This-week-Jane-Andrews-Katie-Price-Terry-Herbert-and-Fred-Johnson/1081bd97-6ce5-40eb-9a2a-4abfee5d48a6

“Mostly, you write a script and someone’s gonna rewrite you. They get hundreds of— not hundred but they get ten writers to write something. If you have a big budget, you can go and get a lot of people to write on script…. I just actually heard that somebody said, 'Well, your screenplay got bought and now someone like Carrie Fisher will come in and rewrite you.' And I feel terrible, you know, because that’s not what I mean to do. My idea was never to raid something and trash it, you know. ‘Cause that – that’s more work for me!”

And it's this incredibly intense process!
From the filmmaking documentary Dreams on Spec

“I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George. I took too many drugs to remember.”

From the filmmaking documentary Dreams on Spec

“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”

In a Vanity Fair interview when asked how she got the part in Star Wars
[Wayne, George, The Princess Diaries, Vanity Fair, November 2006, http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2006/11/wayne_carriefisher200611?currentPage=2, I would be remiss if I didn’t ask how you ended up in Star Wars. I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George. You weren’t sure? No … I took too many drugs to remember]