Quotes from Carrie Fisher

Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.)

I don't really understand it - marriage.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

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

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.

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

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

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

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

She's an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much.

I don't want to be a victim.

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

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.