Top 280 Carrie Fisher Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Everyone else got to wear their regular outfits from the first movie. I had to wear my outfit that Jabba picked out for me. Jabba the Hutt – the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt – the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women’s looks in his world, on his planet and the next. In wax, I would forever be outfitted by outlaw Jabba. In wax and out, I would forever be stone-faced.”

— Carrie Fisher

103. “Stop playing the part of the glib martyr. You’re just trying to make cyanide out of 7-Up.”

— Carrie Fisher

104. “I’m sorry it’s not Mark – it could’ve been. It should’ve been. It might’ve meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.”

— Carrie Fisher

105. “Don’t offer me love I seek disinterest and denial Tenderness makes my skin crawl Understanding is vile When you offer me happiness You offer too much My ideal is a long-lasting longing For someone whom I cannot quite touch.”

— Carrie Fisher

106. “I’ll never be known for my work with boundaries.”

— Carrie Fisher

107. “I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.”

— Carrie Fisher

108. “She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to the birds and crickets and feeling the whole world breathe. Instead, she lived in her head like a madwoman locked in a tower, hearing the wind howling through her hair and waiting for someone to come and rescue her from feeling things so deeply that her bones burned.”

— Carrie Fisher

109. “I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly complete, the puzzle. And when they’re finished they can look at the picture that they’ve managed to piece together and decide whether they like it or not. On their own time. Let them discover you.”

— Carrie Fisher

110. “Here’s what I’ve learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.”

— Carrie Fisher

111. “But ultimately I feel I’m very sane about how crazy I am.”

— Carrie Fisher

112. “Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.”

— Carrie Fisher

113. “I’m a hick,” I recall saying to him. “No,” Harrison answered. “You think you’re less than you are. You’re a smart hick.” And then, “You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.”

— Carrie Fisher

114. “He’s a very strange guy, my father. I can’t get mad at him because he’s so adorable.”

— Carrie Fisher

115. “I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two.”

— Carrie Fisher

116. “I quote fictional characters, because I’m a fictional character myself!”

— Carrie Fisher

117. “Anyway, 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

118. “One of the great things to pretend is that you’re not only alright, you’re in great shape. Now to have that come true – I’ve actually gone on stage depressed and that’s worked its magic on me, ’cause if I can convince you that I’m alright, then maybe I can convince me.”

— Carrie Fisher

119. “I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell.”

— Carrie Fisher

120. “Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.”

— Carrie Fisher

121. “So it’s not what you’re given, it’s how you take it.”

— Carrie Fisher

122. “It was a year that, like all years, a lot of things happened in.”

— Carrie Fisher

123. “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

124. “Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.”

— Carrie Fisher

125. “The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.”

— Carrie Fisher

126. “Heaven’s no place for one who thrives on hell.”

— Carrie Fisher

127. “And my weight, as everyone at Lucasland can recall, was, and remains, of the “any kind” variety.”

— Carrie Fisher

128. “I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.”

— Carrie Fisher

129. “He’s far from a fool, nowhere near. I’m quite near. I can feel the fool that’s so far away from him breathing down my neck.”

— Carrie Fisher

130. “Kidding yourself doesn’t require that you have a sense of humor. But.”

— Carrie Fisher

131. “I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”

— Carrie Fisher

132. “It’s as if I tripped and almost fell into my own grave. My only intent was to feel better – which is to say, not to feel at all.”

— Carrie Fisher

133. “Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.”

— Carrie Fisher

134. “Maybe I shouldn’t have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number, but who cares? My life is over anyway.”

— Carrie Fisher

135. “It’s not nice being inside my head. It’s a nice place to visit but I don’t want to live in here. It’s too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

137. “You love them until they can’t feel loved anymore, then you keep on loving them as if they were still there – as if there’s been a reprieve at the last moment and fate has reversed itself. It.”

— Carrie Fisher

138. “People adapt to you. Don’t worry, you can’t alter what they think of you to any great degree, and by the same token what they think of you can’t alter you.”

— Carrie Fisher

139. “I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.”

— Carrie Fisher

140. “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

141. “I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.”

— Carrie Fisher

142. “I suspect that no matter what happens I will allow it to hurt me. Eat away at my insides, as it were – as it will be. As it always has been. Why am I so accessible? Why do I give myself to people who will always and should always remain strangers? I have always relied on the cruelty of strangers and I must stop it now.”

— Carrie Fisher

143. “They come dressed in the outfits, and not only are the women in the metal bikini but some men are wearing it, too, and it looks fantastic.”

— Carrie Fisher

144. “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

145. “We lie buried together during the night and haunt each other by day.”

— Carrie Fisher

146. “It’s sort of like an invitation to the White House – only you meet a better class of people in the mental hospital.”

— Carrie Fisher

147. “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.”

— Carrie Fisher

148. “Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we’re kind of cooked.”

— Carrie Fisher

149. “I don’t know how anyone can drink alcohol, just based on the taste.”

— Carrie Fisher

150. “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