Carrie Fisher Quotes

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

He was hiding from his problems in a bottle, something that went against every piece of my nature. Me? I couldnʹt let my problems win without a fight.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

I drink to forget I drink.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.