Quote

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

Carrie Fisher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carrie Fisher
Age: 60 †
Born: 1956
Born: October 21
Died: 2016
Died: December 27
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Script Doctor
Singer
Spokesperson
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Burbank
California
Carrie Frances Fisher
Elevator
Elevators
Crushed
Adolescence
Journal
Hold
Fear
Mother
Journals

More quotes by Carrie Fisher

Image
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
Image
I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.
Carrie Fisher
Image
You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?
Carrie Fisher
Image
I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.
Carrie Fisher
Image
It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
Carrie Fisher
Image
People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.
Carrie Fisher
Image
What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.
Carrie Fisher
Image
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
Carrie Fisher
Image
I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.
Carrie Fisher
Image
There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.
Carrie Fisher
Image
The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
Carrie Fisher
Image
You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.
Carrie Fisher