50 Iconic Carrie Fisher Quotes about Hollywood, Love, Life, and More!

Best Carrie Fisher Quotes

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What better can it be than to start this off with some of the best Carrie Fisher quotes. Mind you, they are collected from various sources so you can enjoy your reading season.

• "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."

• "There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed."

• "Instant gratification takes too long."

• "The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you’re hurt."

• "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?"

• "I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

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

• "It’s a man’s world and show business is a man’s meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice."

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

• "What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn’t gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it’s going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it."

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

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

• "I’m very sane about how crazy I am."

• "You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

Carrie Fisher Star Wars Quotes

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Here, Tripboba is going to share Carrie Fisher quotes and legacy from Star Wars that are worth reading.

• “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.”

• “Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

• “I signed my likeness away. Every time I look in the mirror, I have to send Lucas a couple of bucks.”

• “People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.”

• “You're not really famous until you’re a Pez dispenser.”

• "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 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.”

• "It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend."

• "Tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn’t like it. And then I took it off. Backstage."

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

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

• "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."

• "They want to hire about three-fourths. And so I have to get rid of the fourth somehow. The fourth can’t be with me. I made a joke. The fourth can’t be with me!"

• “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!'”

• "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."

Quotes by Carrie Fisher

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There are many inspirations one can get after reading Carrie Fisher quotes. Whether it’s about love, life, passion, and even about Hollywood.

• "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."

• "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."

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

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

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

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

• "I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish."

• "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."

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

• "As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't."

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

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

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."

Funny Carrie Fisher Quotes

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It’s time for laughing moments with Carrie Fisher. These are funny and hilarious Carrie Fisher quotes to read:

• “Ive stopped trying to take things a day at a time. I now take 2 or 3 days at once—hoping it’ll cause a blur effect & I might look younger.”

• “I love when folks say “& in my mind Im thinking”Alerting u where their latest thoughts began. So they dont think they came from a butt cheek.”

• “My daughter, she tells me when she grows up she wants to be a singer or a comic. I said ‘Well, baby, if you wanna be a comic, you gotta be a writer. But don’t worry, you’ve got tons of material: Your mother is a manic depressive drug addict. Your father’s gay. Your grandmother tap dances and your grandfather eats hearing aids.’ And my daughter laughs and laughs and laughs and I said, ‘Baby, the fact that you know that’s funny is gonna save your whole life.’” — Carrie Fisher, “Wishful Drinking”

• “WhenUsay sum1 is down 2 earth, where R they down 2 earth FROM? & once U've been spotted down there, can u go back2 the up zone &who’s up4 it?”

• “See? I don’t know how to write someone privately…..Help me obi Juan whoever the fuck you are…. You’re my only ho”

• “Sex=weird, no?14hrs after you had ur face pressed in2 sum 1’s genitals, ur both walking down the street as tho that was fine, thanx, howR u?”

• “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, “Wishful Drinking”

• “I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I’ve ever done. Seriously — I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.”

• “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.”

• “If my life wasn’t funny, it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”

Note: These Carrie Fisher quotes are mostly from her social media.