Quotes from Carrie Fisher

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.

Instant gratification takes too long.

I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.

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.

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

Never love for me, only obsession.

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.