Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher

"Karl Marx: Religion is the opiate of the masses. Carrie Fisher: I did masses of opiates religiously."
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"Karl Marx: Religion is the opiate of the masses. Carrie Fisher: I did masses of opiates religiously."
Carrie Fisher Postcards from the Edge
"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?"
Carrie Fisher Wishful Drinking
"Take your broken heart, make it into art."
Carrie Fisher
"I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
Carrie Fisher
"Instant gratification takes too long."
Carrie Fisher
"If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable."
Carrie Fisher
"I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that."
Carrie Fisher
"She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family."
Carrie Fisher
"I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress."
Carrie Fisher
"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."
Carrie Fisher
"I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing."
Carrie Fisher
"It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive."
Carrie Fisher
"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."
Carrie Fisher
"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."
Carrie Fisher
"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."
Carrie Fisher
"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."
Carrie Fisher
"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."
Carrie Fisher
"Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally."
Carrie Fisher
"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."
Carrie Fisher
"There is no point at which you can say "Well I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher
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