Carrie Fisher

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

“All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.”

“What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.”

“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.”

“Writing is a very calming thing for me.”

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

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

“Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.”

“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication.”

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

“The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.”

“It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.”

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

“I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.”

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

“Drugs made me feel more normal.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.”