Top 86 Most Inspiring Carrie Fisher Quotes (CONFIDENCE)

Top 15 Most Famous Carrie Fisher Quotes (BEST)

“I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I’ve arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone’s idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes–I hear angels sing.”
Carrie Fisher

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. — I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m **learning** how to sail my ship.

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

I don't want my life to imitate art, I want my life to be art. — I don’t want my life to imitate art, I want my life to be art.

Take your broken heart, make it into art.

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

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

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

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. — 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.

I'll go hang out with a bunch of robots for a few months and then return to my life and try to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. — I’ll go hang out with a bunch of robots for a few months and then return to my life and try to figure out what I want to do when I grow up.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. — If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

From here on out, there’s just reality. I think that’s what maturity is a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know — From here on out, there’s just reality. I think that’s what **maturity** is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you. — You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I’m sorry to say this again, but let’s face it – the Force is with you.

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 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**.

10 Thought-Provoking Carrie Fisher Quotes

“Happy is one of the many things I’m likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you’re going to be happy throughout your life–more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time–well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.”
Carrie Fisher

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries. — I’ll never be known for my work with boundaries.

“My comfort wasn’t the most important thing – my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.”
Carrie Fisher

What I always wanna tell young people know Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. — What I always wanna tell young people know: Pay attention. This isn’t gonna happen again.

Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy. — Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special **purpose** while doing the work you enjoy.

“If there’s a choice between companionship and anything else — especially career — choose companionship. It’s the only thing that has the potential to last. Choose career and you’ll spend unreasonable amounts of time attempting to look younger than you are and feeling you aren’t succeeding.”
Carrie Fisher

It's important to be able to distinguish the difference between a problem and an inconvenience. — It’s important to be able to distinguish the difference between a problem and an inconvenience.

I haven't ever changed who I am. I've just gotten more accepting of it. Being happy isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you have. — I haven’t ever **changed** who I am. I’ve just gotten more accepting of it. Being happy isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you have.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies.

9 Wise Carrie Fisher Quotes About Life

Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren't so challenging. — Going through challenging things can **teach** you a lot, and they also make you **appreciate** the times that aren’t so **challenging**.

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt. — The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you’re hurt.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity. — Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of **regret** and self-pity.

Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets. If that's true, I'm just really healthy. — I do **believe** you’re only as sick as your secrets. If that’s true, I’m just really **healthy**.

I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there! — I’ve been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn’t look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I’d want someone like me around. And I will be there!

2 Carrie Fisher Quotes About Beauty

“We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, ‘Oh you look good,’ and you listen for them to say you’ve lost weight. It’s never ‘How are you?’ or ‘You seem happy!”
Carrie Fisher

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments.

3 Carrie Fisher Quotes on Writing

“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”
Carrie Fisher

Writing is a very calming thing for me. — Writing is a very **calming** thing for me.

“What I wrote all the time when I was a kid – I don’t want to call it ‘poetry,’ because it wasn’t poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker‘s, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it’s a very powerful experience.”
Carrie Fisher

2 Carrie Fisher Quotes About Being a Pez Dispenser

“Oh! This’ll impress you – I’m actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?”
Carrie Fisher

You're not really famous until you're a Pez dispenser. — You’re not really famous until you’re a Pez dispenser.

6 Carrie Fisher Quotes on Love

“I’ve got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience, and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.”
Carrie Fisher

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him. — What **worries** me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven’t had enough **therapy** yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves. — If you look at the person someone chooses to have a **relationship** with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.

“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.”
Carrie Fisher

I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.

Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

8 Carrie Fisher Quotes About Mental Health

“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.”
Carrie Fisher

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 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.

Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavior. — Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can’t seem to muster the behavior.

“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.”
Carrie Fisher

I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am. — I feel I’m very sane about how crazy I am.

It’s not nice being inside my head. It’s a nice place to visit but I don’t want to live in here. It’s too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.

“One of the great things to pretend is that you’re not only alright, you’re in great shape. Now to have that come true – I’ve actually gone on stage depressed and that’s worked its magic on me, ’cause if I can convince you that I’m alright, then maybe I can convince me.”
Carrie Fisher

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed. — There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed.

4 Carrie Fisher Quotes About Leia

“I am Princess Leia, no matter what. If I were trying to get a good table, I wouldn’t say I wrote ‘Postcards.’ Or, if I’m trying to get someone to take my check and I don’t have ID, I wouldn’t say, ‘Have you seen ‘Harry Met Sally’?’ Princess Leia will be on my tombstone.”
Carrie Fisher

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

It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend. — It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and **Harrison** during the weekend.

3 Carrie Fisher Quotes About Her Mother

“She has been more than a mother than me – not much, but definitely more. She’s been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor. Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.”
Carrie Fisher

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it. — If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That’s my word for it.

“At a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become worried about my obviously ever-increasing drug ingestion. So she ended up doing what any concerned parent would do. She called Cary Grant.”
Carrie Fisher

2 Carrie Fisher Quotes About Acting

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

The only reason to go into acting is if you can kill a giant monster.

2 Carrie Fisher Quotes About Star Wars

The actor who played Boba Fett stood behind me while I was wearing the bikini, and he could see all the way to Florida.

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 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**.

20 Carrie Fisher Quotes That Will Make You Think

“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

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it — You know how I always seem to be **struggling**, even when the situation doesn’t call for it?

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination Nowhere. — I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

“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.”
Carrie Fisher

I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath. — I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles – but I’m glad I didn’t hold my breath.

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

“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.”
Carrie Fisher

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

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.

“You know what’s funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You’d think we could remember finding out we weren’t immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing at airports and I think, ‘Aww. They’ve just been told.’.”
Carrie Fisher