Carrie Fisher Quotes

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

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow. – Carrie Fisher

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. – Carrie Fisher

You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. – Carrie Fisher

There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.’ – Carrie Fisher

Men don’t age better than women, they’re just allowed to age. – Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long. – Carrie Fisher

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. – Carrie Fisher

There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed. – Carrie Fisher

I think I am Princess Leia and Leia is me. It’s like a Möbius strip tease. – Carrie Fisher

Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Carrie Fisher

It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me. – Carrie Fisher

It’s important to live life with the experience, and therefore the knowledge, of its mystery and of your own mystery. It’s an enormously exciting journey. – Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher Quotes part 2

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell. – Carrie Fisher

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. – Carrie Fisher

I don’t want to be famous. I want to be around. But I want to be a certain kind of famous, where I can go places. – Carrie Fisher

I’m a product of Hollywood. Acting is all I wanted. I started in the business at 15 as a way of figuring out how to get out of Beverly Hills High School. – Carrie Fisher

I think the hardest lesson to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. – Carrie Fisher

What I didn’t realize, back when I was this 25-year-old pinup for geeks in Princess Leia’s white leatherette bikini, was that I had signed an invisible contract to stay looking the exact same way for the next 30 to 40 years. – Carrie Fisher

I think that if you’re famous, then you just get famous-er. – Carrie Fisher

My body is my brain bag, it hauls me around to those places and in front of faces where there’s something to say or see. – Carrie Fisher

The thing about sleeping on the right side of the bed is that even if it’s just for one night, you wake up on the right side of the bed. – Carrie Fisher

In my opinion, living dreams is as important as pursuing dreams. – Carrie Fisher

I’m not a sex symbol, I’m a human being. – Carrie Fisher

The only thing worse than being noticed is not being noticed. – Carrie Fisher

If I wasn’t famous, my job wouldn’t require me to live in Los Angeles. I wouldn’t choose to live here. – Carrie Fisher

If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. – Carrie Fisher

The father who abused and neglected his daughter but now claims to love her, may be telling the truth; his love may be real, but his daughter will never believe him. – Carrie Fisher

You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually, the confidence will follow. – Carrie Fisher

I am allergic to every single detergent on the planet. – Carrie Fisher

I was street smart, but unfortunately, the street was Rodeo Drive. – Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that has gone on for years between me and my body. – Carrie Fisher

I’m a much nicer person now that my body falls apart regularly. – Carrie Fisher

I think I do overshare. It’s my way of trying to understand myself. It creates its own anxiety, though. If you reveal everything, there’s nothing left. – Carrie Fisher

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

Ninety percent of my life is just sitting around waiting for something horrible to happen. – Carrie Fisher

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously. – Carrie Fisher

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers so far. – Carrie Fisher

I like to quote fictional characters because I’m not as brave as I want people to think I am. – Carrie Fisher

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. – Carrie Fisher

There’s no way to really portray how bizarre it was to hold [Han Solo’s] blaster. I remember when I first saw it; I didn’t know that it was a movie prop. – Carrie Fisher

I can’t be alone in the f——k Holocaust. – Carrie Fisher

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Carrie Fisher

You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. – Carrie Fisher

I’m very sane about how crazy I am. – Carrie Fisher