Top 280 Carrie Fisher Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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

153. “Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.”

— Carrie Fisher

154. “I don’t just want you to like me, I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you’ve ever encountered. I want to explode on your night sky like fireworks at midnight on New Year’s Eve in Hong Kong.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

156. “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

157. “I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.”

— Carrie Fisher

158. “No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it’s tragic.”

— Carrie Fisher

159. “Now this is a delusion, but it’s my delusion and I’m sticking with it. It’s sort of like: I have problems but problems don’t have me.”

— Carrie Fisher

160. “I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

— Carrie Fisher

161. “If wishes were horses mine would be glue -.”

— Carrie Fisher

162. “I call people sometimes hoping not only that they’ll verify the fact that I’m alive but that they’ll also, however indirectly, convince me that being alive is an appropriate state for me to be in. Because sometimes I don’t think it’s such a bright idea. Is it worth the trouble it takes trying to live life so that someday you get something worthwhile out of it, instead of it almost always taking worthwhile things out of you?”

— Carrie Fisher

163. “What you’ll have of me after I journey to that great Death Star in the sky is an extremely accomplished daughter, a few books, and a picture of a stern-looking girl wearing some kind of metal bikini lounging on a giant drooling squid, behind a newscaster informing you of the passing of Princess Leia after a long battle with her head.”

— Carrie Fisher

164. “The world was his shower and he used women for soap.”

— Carrie Fisher

165. “It’s very dangerous to have someone like you, because one day he’ll find that you are not the person he thought you were.”

— Carrie Fisher

166. “Tell the truth, be kind, all that corny stuff.”

— Carrie Fisher

167. “I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.”

— Carrie Fisher

168. “I was sitting by myself the other night doing the usual things one does when spending time alone with yourselves. You know, making mountains out of molehills, hiking up to the top of the mountains, having a Hostess Twinkie and then throwing myself off the mountain. Stuff like that.”

— Carrie Fisher

169. “Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.”

— Carrie Fisher

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170. “I could’ve given you so much but you wanted so little.”

— Carrie Fisher

171. “I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

— Carrie Fisher

172. “I had never been Princess Leia before and now I would be her forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was.”

— Carrie Fisher

173. “George says that if you look at the person someone chooses to have “a relationship” with, you’ll see what they think of themselves. So Harrison is what I think of myself. It’s hardly a relationship, but nevertheless he is a choice. I examined all the options and chose the most likely to leave. No emotional investments. 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

174. “You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always going, ‘What’s that? What’s that?’ You wondered what everything was. You would frown and point a lot, like a conductor looking for your orchestra. You always seemed very busy, like you were between appointments all the time, but you were just a little child.”

— Carrie Fisher

175. “What was it I wanted to tell you? Was it the new T-shirt-ready saying I came up with: “There’s no room for demons when you’re self-possessed”?”

— Carrie Fisher

176. “I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.”

— Carrie Fisher

177. “You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other – the side that makes big things small or small things big.”

— Carrie Fisher

178. “Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

— Carrie Fisher

179. “The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They’re probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don’t know how to.”

— Carrie Fisher

180. “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

181. “So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.”

— Carrie Fisher

182. “What’s the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little.”

— Carrie Fisher

183. “I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.”

— Carrie Fisher

184. “She liked going to the gym, or rather, she liked having been to the gym, and the only way to have been was to go.”

— Carrie Fisher

185. “Screw beauty, it’s superficial anyway, and my other attributes matter way more than my appearance.”

— Carrie Fisher

186. “I loved him and he allowed it.”

— Carrie Fisher

187. “So Pat showed me a variety of exotic looks – from Russian princesses to Swedish maids. I looked at the images, slightly alarmed. There was no Lady Gaga to guide me.”

— Carrie Fisher

188. “I heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I’ve arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone’s idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes – I hear angels sing.”

— Carrie Fisher

189. “My mother’s career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone’s buddy, always smiling for the cameras.”

— Carrie Fisher

190. “Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don’t know how to behave.”

— Carrie Fisher

191. “Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.”

— Carrie Fisher

192. “Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports...”

— Carrie Fisher

193. “The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons – a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that’s redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct.”

— Carrie Fisher

194. “Iwish you would love me more so that I could love you less. – Not Me.”

— Carrie Fisher

195. “Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you’d get famous, but then you wouldn’t be famous anymore. Then you’d have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn’t.”

— Carrie Fisher

196. “I did masses of opiates religiously.”

— Carrie Fisher

197. “Back then I was always looking ahead to who I wanted to be versus who I didn’t realize I already was, and the wished-for me was most likely based on who other people seemed to be and the desire to have the same effect on others that they had had on me.”

— Carrie Fisher

198. “If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”

— Carrie Fisher

199. “I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You.”

— Carrie Fisher

200. “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.”

— Carrie Fisher