Carrie Fisher quote: "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."

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

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in dif...
CARRIE FISHER

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
CARRIE FISHER

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still survivin...
CARRIE FISHER

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
CARRIE FISHER

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I l...
CARRIE FISHER

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
CARRIE FISHER

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a na...
CARRIE FISHER

What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's n...
CARRIE FISHER

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always sm...
CARRIE FISHER

Writing is a very calming thing for me.
CARRIE FISHER

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced ...
CARRIE FISHER

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
CARRIE FISHER

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...
CARRIE FISHER

I could charm the birds out of everyone's trees but his
CARRIE FISHER

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
CARRIE FISHER

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
CARRIE FISHER

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

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic...
CARRIE FISHER

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
CARRIE FISHER

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.
CARRIE FISHER

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. ...
CARRIE FISHER

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. N...
CARRIE FISHER

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I j...
CARRIE FISHER

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip ab...
CARRIE FISHER

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it'...
CARRIE FISHER

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, i...
CARRIE FISHER

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so wel...
CARRIE FISHER

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the res...
CARRIE FISHER

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...
CARRIE FISHER

Take your broken heart, make it into art.
CARRIE FISHER

It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that te...
CARRIE FISHER

I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20. And they're not just doing some goofy sequel,...
CARRIE FISHER

Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat an...
CARRIE FISHER

I had never been Princess Leia before and now I would be her forever. I would never not be Princess ...
CARRIE FISHER

It’s not nice being inside my head. It’s a nice place to visit but I don’t want to live in her...
CARRIE FISHER

It’s a man’s world and show business is a man’s meal, with women generously sprinkled through ...
CARRIE FISHER

I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly com...
CARRIE FISHER

Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.
CARRIE FISHER

The one I wore to kill Jabba (my favorite moment in my own personal film history), which I highly re...
CARRIE FISHER

I suspect that no matter what happens I will allow it to hurt me. Eat away at my insides, as it were...
CARRIE FISHER

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

What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because i...
CARRIE FISHER

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going...
CARRIE FISHER

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
CARRIE FISHER

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's worl...
CARRIE FISHER

I was street-smart- but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive
CARRIE FISHER

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The onl...
CARRIE FISHER

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am som...
CARRIE FISHER

General Kenobi, Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars; now he begs you to help him in hi...
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

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's abou...
CARRIE FISHER

Will somebody get this giant walking carpet out of my way?
CARRIE FISHER

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't
CARRIE FISHER

People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was t...
CARRIE FISHER

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer....
CARRIE FISHER

Instant gratification takes too long.
CARRIE FISHER

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well
CARRIE FISHER

I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. An...
CARRIE FISHER

I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.
CARRIE FISHER

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

I've seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they'...
CARRIE FISHER

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

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There&#...
CARRIE FISHER

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to m...
CARRIE FISHER

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
CARRIE FISHER

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
CARRIE FISHER

No one says that to you any more really,
CARRIE FISHER

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, ...
CARRIE FISHER

Leia follows me like a vague smell.
CARRIE FISHER

I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.
CARRIE FISHER

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Le...
CARRIE FISHER

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and w...
CARRIE FISHER

The manic end of is a lot of fun.
CARRIE FISHER

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
CARRIE FISHER

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

[Princess Leia gets her first look at the Millennium Falcon]
You came in that thing? You're bra...
CARRIE FISHER

I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity...
CARRIE FISHER

I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through m...
CARRIE FISHER

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ...
CARRIE FISHER

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless...
CARRIE FISHER

[Princess Leia gets her first look at the Millennium Falcon] You came in that thing? You're braver t...
CARRIE FISHER

Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
CARRIE FISHER

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who st...
CARRIE FISHER

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's fac...
CARRIE FISHER

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

I don't know who you are or where you've come from, but from now on you'll do as I say, okay?
CARRIE FISHER

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't ...
CARRIE FISHER

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing th...
CARRIE FISHER

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote thing...
CARRIE FISHER

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds'...
CARRIE FISHER

So Pat showed me a variety of exotic looks—from Russian princesses to Swedish maids. I looked at t...
CARRIE FISHER

That's why 'Star Wars' is appealing. You watch someone fight the perilous monster.
CARRIE FISHER

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
CARRIE FISHER

She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to t...
CARRIE FISHER

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."

Carrie Fisher: "I did ma...
CARRIE FISHER

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives...
CARRIE FISHER

Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given...
CARRIE FISHER

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
CARRIE FISHER

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

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. ...
CARRIE FISHER

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens...
CARRIE FISHER

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

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'Wha...
CARRIE FISHER

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into ...
CARRIE FISHER

It’s very dangerous to have someone like you, because one day he’ll find that you are not the pe...
CARRIE FISHER

To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never ...
CARRIE FISHER

If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think ...
CARRIE FISHER

Anyway, George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the dress and says, ...
CARRIE FISHER

I had endless issues with my appearance in Star Wars. Real ones - not ones you bring up so pe...
CARRIE FISHER

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
CARRIE FISHER

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult f...
CARRIE FISHER

i am someone who wants very much to be popular. I don’t just want you to like me, I want to be one...
CARRIE FISHER

I not only feel better about myself because these people are also fucked up (and I guess this gives ...
CARRIE FISHER

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreci...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we&#...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definite...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly cont...
CARRIE COON

I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be ...
CARRIE PRESTON

I would ask, 'Have you read '1984'? Have you read 'Brave New World'? If so, I...
CARRIE VAUGHN

I had a few really bad years in school, just from not fitting in and being bullied. It was kind of b...
CARRIE VAUGHN

The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and some...
CARRIE RYAN

As I have learned over the years, your friends don’t change; you just learn to ignore or embrace t...
CARRIE ADAMS

... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't yo...
CARRIE JONES

The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

An asteroid impact is a preventable natural disaster. It's in part preventable because we have t...
CARRIE NUGENT

Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, moti...
CARRIE NUGENT

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

'True Blood' is shot on film. It's more like a movie, and they take more days to shoot i...
CARRIE PRESTON

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate...
CARRIE SNOW

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the hu...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more tha...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take fr...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with ...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I've learned it's really important to work hard and keep your family and friends close. You&...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon. B...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the ...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a gr...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. I...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an acc...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I love chocolate, and I love to shop - just give me a good boutique. I like mall scenarios, too, bec...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harde...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me. That's crazy talk.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on wit...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be abl...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Sometimes a girl's gotta have some chocolate!
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important th...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but ob...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dy...
CARRIE DONOVAN

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don&#...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that...
CARRIE PRESTON

After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky....
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

There are all these interesting rules about asteroid nomenclature. Once you discover it, you have th...
CARRIE NUGENT

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I ...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more import...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me.
CARRIE JONES

Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our l...
CARRIE NUGENT

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.
CARRIE SNOW

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and mo...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

I shot all my stuff on 'Arrested Development' in one day, and was brought into a really well...
CARRIE PRESTON

If I go and buy a coffee, and somebody asks me what I do, I'll say, 'I find asteroids.' ...
CARRIE NUGENT

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN

You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anyt...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal ...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I'm really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P....
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

Dimples crinkle up the skin near his lips. I will not look at his lips. How can he never have used t...
CARRIE JONES

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself
CARRIE JONES

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fracture...
CARRIE JONES

My eyes meet his eyes.
“You were a jerk,” I say.
His hands move to my cheeks. “I’m...
CARRIE JONES

What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight aga...
CARRIE JONES

We teleported," Issie finishes. "Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in ...
CARRIE JONES

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them be...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,'...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

We must note that this judge is thinking in a progressive way. He is well read... and is really show...
CARRIE SHELVER

It also comes down to how society perceives the role of men, as opposed to the role of women. Men ca...
CARRIE SHELVER

We are sending out a strong message of support and solidarity to survivors of rape and violence.
CARRIE SHELVER

Much of the time these ... sexual assaults will go unreported because of the stigma that still preva...
CARRIE SHELVER

It's being said that she's a slut ... that she's a thief of other women's husbands, that she did it ...
CARRIE SHELVER

We had to negotiate to be allowed to go closer (to the court entrance).
CARRIE SHELVER

It was like a perfect meet. They stuck all of their routines and I was really happy.
CARRIE ROTONDARO

They were consistent on everything.
CARRIE ROTONDARO

We didn't really know what to expect.
CARRIE ROTONDARO

Things went really well. We did all our routines the best we could.
CARRIE ROTONDARO

I think she?s going to be fine. She?s all about the team and does whatever she has to.
CARRIE ROTONDARO

They have definitely stepped up. They are consistent. They come through every meet, you know you can...
CARRIE ROTONDARO

[The injury] has been about two weeks now and it?s been getting worse and worse. So today we said it...
CARRIE ROTONDARO

I don?t really know that much about Hand, we haven?t seen them this year. I do know that Hand has a ...
CARRIE ROTONDARO

They have so much depth. They were solid tonight. They have harder skills. We didn't have as much di...
CARRIE ROTONDARO

I think [our scores] are pretty comparable [to other contenders]. If we have Heather back and we hav...
CARRIE ROTONDARO

He said he would get on the computer when he got home from work so we knew he would be on. When (pol...
CARRIE RODGERS

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.

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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.

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