Carrie Fisher

"I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

"I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise...."

"I have gone to the set and you’re kind of around in this—it’s kind of combat writing when you do rewriting and stuff, and I feel like it’s a kind of ambulance chasing. Recently, I did this kind of a w…"

"Instant gratification takes too long."

"I have to start by telling you that my entire existence can be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable."

"Mostly, you write a script and someone’s gonna rewrite you. They get hundreds of—not hundred but they get ten writers to write something. If you have a big budget, you can go and get a lot of people t…"

"That's the way it works in movies," said Suzanne. "Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. So…"

"I Googled myself without lubricant. I don't recommend it."