Carrie Fisher quotes

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

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

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
- Carrie Fisher

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

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

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

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
- Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long.
- Carrie Fisher

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.
- Carrie Fisher

Leia follows me like a vague smell.
- Carrie Fisher

I signed my likeness away. Every time I look in the mirror, I have to send Lucas a couple of bucks.
- Carrie Fisher

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
- Carrie Fisher

You're not really famous until you’re a Pez dispenser.
- Carrie Fisher

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.
- Carrie Fisher

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
- Carrie Fisher

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

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

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

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.
- Carrie Fisher

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.
- Carrie Fisher

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