Top 280 Carrie Fisher Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

3. “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

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

— Carrie Fisher

5. “I’m very sane about how crazy I am.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

7. “I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

9. “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.”

— Carrie Fisher

10. “Instant gratification takes too long.”

— Carrie Fisher

11. “There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed.”

— Carrie Fisher

12. “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.”

— Carrie Fisher

13. “Take your broken heart, make it into art.”

— Carrie Fisher

14. “You’re not famous until you’re a Pez dispenser.”

— Carrie Fisher

15. “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

16. “As we all know, there is no underwear in space.”

— Carrie Fisher

17. “I do believe you’re only as sick as your secrets.”

— Carrie Fisher

18. “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.”

— Carrie Fisher

19. “Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.”

— Carrie Fisher

20. “You’re only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I’m funny about it.”

— Carrie Fisher

21. “I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.”

— Carrie Fisher

22. “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

23. “My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.”

— Carrie Fisher

24. “My heart’s in the right place. I know, ’cuz I hid it there.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

26. “I don’t want to be a victim.”

— Carrie Fisher

27. “My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that’s just positive tension.”

— Carrie Fisher

28. “For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space. I have some. I have two.”

— Carrie Fisher

29. “I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.”

— Carrie Fisher

30. “Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.”

— Carrie Fisher

31. “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

32. “Good anecdote – bad reality.”

— Carrie Fisher

33. “I Googled myself without lubricant. I don’t recommend it.”

— Carrie Fisher

34. “I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.”

— Carrie Fisher

35. “The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you’re hurt.”

— Carrie Fisher

36. “You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.”

— Carrie Fisher

37. “In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.”

— Carrie Fisher

38. “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?”

— Carrie Fisher

39. “Sid said that drugs weren’t the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.”

— Carrie Fisher

40. “I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I’m not bad at it. ‘Anyone’s crisis but mine’ is my motto.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

42. “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.”

— Carrie Fisher

43. “I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself – Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.”

— Carrie Fisher

44. “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

45. “Youth and beauty are not accomplishments.”

— Carrie Fisher

46. “Baby, the fact that you know that’s funny is going to save your whole life.”

— Carrie Fisher

47. “If talking were aerobic, I’d be the thinnest person in the world.”

— Carrie Fisher

48. “I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough. That I deserved time off for all my bad behavior. Let myself off the hook, drag myself off the rack where I am both torturer and torturee.”

— Carrie Fisher

49. “What doesn’t kill men makes them stronger. What doesn’t kill women makes men breakfast.”

— Carrie Fisher

50. “Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don’t know me who gossip about me. You can’t believe the things I’ve heard.”

— Carrie Fisher