Quotes from Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's not a man that can go and say, 'Look, can you get me in any faster? I'm Mickey Mouse.' Whereas I can go in and say, 'Look, could you get me a table faster? I'm Princess Leia.'

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

I've seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they're wearing makeup so they can look young, and I don't think that's good. They have all these products now called - wait, what's it called, it's my favorite - youth suppressant, or age go away; they don't work.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

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

In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

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 have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.