476 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

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

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

Now I say I’m a diarist with an explanation I’ll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

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

Sid said that drugs weren’t the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it’s sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse – and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

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 emerge from my three-week-long ECT treatment to discover that I am not only this Princess Leia creature but also several-sized dolls, various T-shirts and posters, some cleansing items, and a bunch of other merchandise. It turns out I was even a kind of pin-up – a fantasy that geeky teenage boys across the globe jerked off to me with some frequency. How’s that for a newborn-how-do-you-do damsel in very little cinematic distress?

I’m fond of kissing. It’s part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.