I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
— Carrie Fisher
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.
Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
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.
I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
I don't want to be a victim.
I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
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.
Leia follows me like a vague smell.
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.
There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
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.
My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
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.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Drugs made me feel more normal.
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'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.
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.
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.
Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.
I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
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.
People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
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.
He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.
People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
