Carrie Fisher

“I think I do overshare. It's my way of trying to understand myself.”

“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.”

“No matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”

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

“I feel very sane about how crazy I am.”

“Instant gratification takes too long.”

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

“Youth and beauty are not accomplishments.”

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

“Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and not an overriding ambition.”

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

“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

“Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.”

“I don't want my life to imitate art, I want my life to be art.”

“Being happy isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you have.”

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