I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself. Carrie Fisher More Quotes by Carrie Fisher More Quotes From Carrie Fisher 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. Carrie Fisher writing may trying Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories. Carrie Fisher kevin challenges stories People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach. Carrie Fisher bird beach people Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis. Carrie Fisher diagnosis bipolar accepting Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked. Carrie Fisher female lines kind 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 stars war people So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life. Carrie Fisher ridiculous bipolar trying My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras. Carrie Fisher careers mother trying I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing. Carrie Fisher parks internet rooms I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea. Carrie Fisher princess fun jobs I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. Carrie Fisher falling-in-love reading book Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children. Carrie Fisher men children sex You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. Carrie Fisher sarcasm fake-people sarcastic Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard. Carrie Fisher gossip believe people I always wanted to blunt and blur what was painful. My idea [in taking drugs] was pain reduction and mind expansion, but I ended up with mind reduction and pain expansion. Carrie Fisher Princess Leia lives in this film in a way that's mind-blowing for me. Carrie Fisher company-news I did have a false bravado with drugs, and I found my adult female body and person didn’t need that, [Once I was] a mother I was like, ‘I certainly don’t want to be not present for them.’ I feel like I’m alive, in part, because I’ve looked at what it has done to the rest of my family. Carrie Fisher latest-headlines I love these movies, and actually they've become better for me now because I have a daughter, and she loves them. Carrie Fisher top-news 'They don't want to hire all of me -- only about three-quarters! nothing changes: It's an appearance-driven thing. 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. Carrie Fisher top-news She's a prisoner of a giant testicle who has a lot of saliva going on and she does not want to wear that thing and it's ultimately that chain, which you're now indicating is some sort of accessory to SM, that is used to kill the giant saliva testicle, that's asinine. Carrie Fisher top-news
