Carrie Fisher Quotes – Lessons from a Beloved Princess

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

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

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.

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

Stay afraid of what you can’t do. Say yes anyway.

I’m not allowed to have gum.

Resentment is a woman’s disease.

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

Don’t slide through life. Savor it. Slow down. Be kind. Pay attention. Because this isn’t going to happen again.

I’m not a sex symbol, I’m a writer. It’s very flattering to be called a sex symbol, but I don’t think it will ever become part of my image.

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

You can’t generalize about men or women.

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

People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with a specific label.

What’s my drug of choice? Well, what have you got?

You’re only as sick as your secrets.

When you’re a celebrity, you’re encouraged to be eccentric.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

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

I recently fought the crowds at Disneyland to experience the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge themed area. It was even more magical than I imagined.

It’s not natural to have men in the kitchen unless they’re on the menu.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.

Stay afraid and then do it anyway. What’s important is the action.

I like to quote fictional characters because I’m not brave enough to use real names.

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

I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.

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

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

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

Self-esteem is a fluctuating commodity.

The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family.

I’m a full-time believer in writing habits, pedestrian as it all may sound. You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it flies away.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it’s sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse — and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

What does my mom think of me writing? I never asked her. She died before I could tell her.

I’m not as cooperative as you might want a woman to be.

The most important thing a guy can have next to talent, of course, is his engagement with life.

I thought I would inaugurate a Bipolar Pride Day. You know, with floats and parades and stuff! On the floats we would get the depressives, and they wouldn’t even have to leave their beds — we’d just roll their beds out of their houses, and they could continue staring off miserably into space.

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

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

My slip was showing, I was in full-body spanx, it was as hot as Kalamazoo in which no one wants to be, and there was my slip!

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

I like to quote fictional characters because I’m not brave enough to use real names.

What you’ll have of me after I journey to that great Death Star in the sky is an extremely accomplished daughter, a few books, and a picture of a stern-looking girl wearing some kind of metal bikini lounging on a giant drooling squid, behind a newscaster informing you of the passing of Princess Leia after a long battle with her head.

The last time I saw him, he was blind and batty, waxing philosophical about geese in the living room, enveloped in a cloud of acrid painkiller fart.

It’s in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

I’m glad we’re talking about menopause, because I didn’t want to talk about being bipolar.

You know what’s too long? The difference between Academy Awards.