Top 33 Carrie Fisher Quotes



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

 

There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed.

 

ligion is the opiate of the masses.” “I did masses of opiates religiously.

 

I thought you might supply some tendernessI lackedBut out of all the things I offered you took mybreath awayand now I want it back

 

To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.

 

I’m sorry it’s not Mark – it could’ve been. It should’ve been. It might’ve meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.

 

Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can’t seem to muster the behavoir

 

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

 

Clothes falling away signals a situation that I’ll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don’t dress it up, don’t expect talk to, either.

 

Oh! This’ll impress you – I’m actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?

 

While she’d been drying her hair, she’d come up with a new message for her answering machine – “I’m out, deliberately avoiding your call” – and that simple burst of creativity had raised her spirits a bit.

 

I am always disappointed with someone who loves me – how perfect can he be if he can’t see through me?

 

If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn’t as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was.

 

Offstage, I couldn’t put things into words, and that was the one thing I’d always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn’t be able to get out again.

 

The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou’re hurt.

 

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

 

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we’ve managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

 

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.

 

It’s a man’s world and show business is a man’s meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.

 

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

 

The crew was mostly men. That’s how it was and that’s pretty much how it still is. It’s a man’s world & show business is a man’s meal with women generously sprinkled through it like over-qualified spice.

 

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

 

There is no point at which you can say “Well I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.”

 

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.

 

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

 

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 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 born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in ‘Singin’ In The Rain.’

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

 

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

 

 

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