476 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened – that I might have killed myself.

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.

Tell the truth, be kind, all that corny stuff.

Kidding yourself doesn’t require that you have a sense of humor. But a sense of humor comes in handy for almost everything else.

It’s a man’s world and show business is a man’s meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.

Sometimes I’m afraid I’m happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt,” she shrugged with true bravado, “I’ll assume I’m happy.

Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.

There are a couple of reasons why I take comfort in being able to put all this in my own vernacular and present it to you. For one thing, because then I’m not completely alone with it. And for another, it gives me a sense of being in control of the craziness. Now this is a delusion, but it’s MY delusion and I’m sticking with it. It’s sort of like: I have problems but problems don’t have me.

I suspect that no matter what happens I will allow it to hurt me. Eat away at my insides, as it were – as it will be. As it always has been.