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.

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

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

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

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.

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.

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.

The manic end of is a lot of fun.

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

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

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

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

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

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.

Instant gratification takes too long.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

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

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

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

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.

I don't like looking at myself. I have such bad body dysmorphia.

I don't want to be a victim.

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

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

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

I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

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

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 took it seriously, which they didn't have to do, you know? It's hard to do, given the appetite and the angles from which everybody's coming at it.

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

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

I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'