476 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

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.

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.

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

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

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

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.

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.