Carrie Fisher

“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."”

“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.”

“Instant gratification takes too long.”

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

“One can never call me a quitter I take something right and see it through till it’s wrong Auctioning myself off to the lowest bidder Going once, going twice Gone Sold to the man for the pric...”

“I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.”

“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....”

“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...”

“Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.”

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

“Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.”

“One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on m...”

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

“It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.”

“It can't hurt to go to the people you love, whose blood type courses through your veins and whose DNA, from a certain angle, contains many of the same markings as yours. You don't have to ta...”

“I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20. And they're not just doing some goofy sequel, like, to service the hunger of it. It actually has been thought out and it has integrity and they too...”

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

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