Carrie Fisher Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.”

“People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.”

“I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.”

“I don't want to be a victim.”

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

“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 was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.”

“There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.”

“If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.”