A lot of what's wrong with me is, I feel like, a bank error in my favor. It can be fantastic. Whenever I read about it in other books, it's very, very heavy and awful. I was trying to get to the positive side.
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
Drugs made me feel more normal.
Has Tom Cruise ever been in psychiatry? It's been helpful to me in my life.
He put me on lithium. I liked that for a while, but soon I missed my little pal, my up mood.
I always like to start off with a strong opener. I didn't have that line until I'd written a lot of the book because I sort of started writing it from the mental hospital out.
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.
I didn't accept it fully until I had the psychotic break four years ago, in 1997.
I didn't fully accept the bipolar diagnosis.
I didn't like the diagnosis. I couldn't believe the psychiatrist told me that. I just thought it was because he was lazy and didn't want to treat me.
I do a lot of research on the internet. It's easier for me.
I do a lot of scripts that don't get made that I'm very proud of.
I don't do that much script doctoring anymore.
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.
I don't think that anybody's invincible, but I can certainly outlast things.
I don't want peace, I just don't want war.
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 really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
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 think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
I try to encourage people to envy my mania. A lot of it is just fantastic.
I was lying to doctors and looking through people's drawers for drugs.
I was on drugs, too, at the time, and I don't think you can accurately diagnose bipolar disorder when someone is actively drug addicted or alcoholic.
I was still wrangling with my moods, and I was living in a house, which is a lot of responsibility. I had a child, and for her sake I was trying to act as if I hadn't been hurt by her father, who had left me for a man. I was hiding, and I am not used to doing that.
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
I was worried about how everyone would react to me.
I wasn't connecting at all, but I kept talking and talking and talking. At a certain point, I lost my mind. The birthing was over, and I got to the other side of the looking glass. When I went back to the hospital, I was hallucinating.
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.
I'm as active as I can be in helping to educate people on manic depression, so I have a few speaking engagements coming up as well.
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'm never restricted about what I can write about myself.
I'm writing something for HBO and something for Irwin Winkler.
I've read these great memoirs where they remember things from when they were three and four. I don't remember anything from then!
If you write memoirs there are a lot more restrictions for you.
Impulses become edicts from the Vatican.
Instant gratification takes too long.
Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
Leia follows me like a vague smell.
Mental illness sounds so horrendous and it can be. But it's kind of a broad term.
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.
People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
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.
People that are depressed have mental illness.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Roy decorated my house and Pam has to live in it.
Shampoo - it was fine, though I didn't really have anything else to compare it to at the time, being my first film.
So maybe I was taking drugs to keep the monster in the box.
The manic end of is a lot of fun.
Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
Well, I have a novel coming out in the spring, titled, The Best Awful There Is.
What I was trying to do was make my brand of mental illness sort of accessible and if at all possible amusing.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Carrie publicly opposed Arnold Schwarzenegger's bid to become Governor of California.
Carrie received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Postcards from the edge at the 1991 BAFTA awards.
Carrie's two half sisters, Joely and Tricia are also actresses.
Carrie was married to musician Paul Simon for less than a year between 1983 and 1984.
Carrie thought the script for Star Wars was ridiculous.
Stood on a box for many of her scenes with Harrison Ford in the Star Wars trilogy, owing to the fact that she was roughly a foot shorter than him and didn't fit into the frame.
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