110+ Carrie Fisher Quotes On Beauty, Funny And Iconic

Carrie Fisher was an American actress, writer, and comedian. She was best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise. Fisher was a major advocate for mental health awareness and substance abuse, and wrote several books including her memoirs, Wishful Drinking and The Princess Diarist. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Carrie Fisher on life, beauty, funny.

Top 10 Carrie Fisher Quotes

1. If you love someone, everything is negotiable. If you don't, everything is a door.
2. Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
3. Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
4. If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
5. 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.
6. My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
10. The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

Carrie Fisher Image Quotes

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

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

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

Carrie Fisher Short Quotes

• I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
• Instant gratification takes too long.
• There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
• I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!
• He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.
• I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
• The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.
• Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
• I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.
• I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

Carrie Fisher Quotes About Life

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

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back. — Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year? — Carrie Fisher

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. — Carrie Fisher

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution. — Carrie Fisher

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire. — Carrie Fisher

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you. — Carrie Fisher

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

All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever. — Carrie Fisher

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time. — Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher Quotes About Funny

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

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny. — Carrie Fisher

I can't say that period talk is my favorite bonding arena. But I also think it's sort of funny. — Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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! — Carrie Fisher

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

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions — Carrie Fisher

Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile. — Carrie Fisher

I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt. — Carrie Fisher

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too. — Carrie Fisher

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food. — 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. — Carrie Fisher

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. — Carrie Fisher

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

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is. — Carrie Fisher

I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space. — Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version. — Carrie Fisher

Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter. — Carrie Fisher

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that. — Carrie Fisher

A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from. — Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. — Carrie Fisher

I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence. — Carrie Fisher

I think that now most people know someone in their family that is coping with something, but there is still a tremendous amount of shame - that one is still regarded as a defective unit ... if only they would pull up their bootstraps - they are only indulging their emotions, everybody's moody, blah, blah, blah. — Carrie Fisher

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. — Carrie Fisher

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

Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things. — Carrie Fisher

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long. — Carrie Fisher

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

Drugs made me feel more normal. — Carrie Fisher

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us. — Carrie Fisher

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports. — Carrie Fisher

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

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis. — Carrie Fisher

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir — Carrie Fisher

My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes. — Carrie Fisher

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself. — Carrie Fisher

As we all know, there is no underwear in space. — Carrie Fisher

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else. — Carrie Fisher

I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication. — Carrie Fisher

This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes. — Carrie Fisher

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression. — Carrie Fisher

Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio! — Carrie Fisher

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself. — Carrie Fisher

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread. — Carrie Fisher

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life. — Carrie Fisher

Good anecdote--bad reality. — Carrie Fisher

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect. — Carrie Fisher

I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right. — Carrie Fisher

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this. — Carrie Fisher

If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now. — Carrie Fisher

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh! — Carrie Fisher

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash. — Carrie Fisher

Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run. — Carrie Fisher

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear. — Carrie Fisher

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into. — Carrie Fisher

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression. — Carrie Fisher

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects. — Carrie Fisher

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. — Carrie Fisher

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class. — Carrie Fisher

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else. — Carrie Fisher

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be. — Carrie Fisher

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food! — Carrie Fisher

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers. — Carrie Fisher

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs. — Carrie Fisher

I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug. — Carrie Fisher

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art. — Carrie Fisher

I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there. — Carrie Fisher

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar]. — Carrie Fisher

If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world. — Carrie Fisher

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence. — Carrie Fisher

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets. — Carrie Fisher

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly. — Carrie Fisher

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

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave. — Carrie Fisher

My mother is an immensely powerful woman. — Carrie Fisher

I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy. — Carrie Fisher

I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff. — Carrie Fisher

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children. — Carrie Fisher

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something. — Carrie Fisher

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 never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up. — Carrie Fisher

Life Lessons by Carrie Fisher

1. Carrie Fisher taught us to be resilient and never give up, no matter how difficult the situation may be. She faced her struggles with mental health and addiction with courage and determination, and used her experiences to help others.
2. She also showed us the importance of self-love and acceptance, and that it's okay to be imperfect. She embraced her own flaws and encouraged others to do the same.
3. Finally, she taught us to be kind and generous, and to always be there for others. She was an advocate for mental health and a strong supporter of the LGBTQ+ community.