Top 280 Carrie Fisher Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at twenty.”

— Carrie Fisher

202. “So maybe this was another example of nothing ever being just one thing. 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.”

— Carrie Fisher

203. “I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me – or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.”

— Carrie Fisher

204. “I’ve got to learn something from my mistakes instead of establishing a new record to break.”

— Carrie Fisher

205. “I got real acting experience, which I’d never had partly because I still wasn’t so sure that I wanted to be an actress. But maybe it was something I could do without a high school diploma or accredited skills of any kind whatsoever – a job that would pay me enough of a wage to let me go out into the world and start what I would laughingly come to call my own actual life.”

— Carrie Fisher

206. “My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just – he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don’t know that he was parented that well.”

— Carrie Fisher

207. “My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.”

— Carrie Fisher

208. “Now I say I’m a diarist with an explanation I’ll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.”

— Carrie Fisher

209. “I’m fond of kissing. It’s part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.”

— Carrie Fisher

210. “Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.”

— Carrie Fisher

211. “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

212. “I mean, clearly no one would vote for volts until everything else had failed. It’s reserved for those languishing in the suicidal ideation lounge, and I had never been truly suicidal. Not that I haven’t, on occasion, thought it might be an improvement over the all-too-painful present if I could be deadish for maybe just a teeny little bit of it. You know, like a really good sleep, after which I’d wake refreshed and equal to whatever the problem had been, that problem would have now vanished.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

214. “I’m frightened of the power I have given him over me and of how he will almost certainly abuse it, merely by not being fully aware he has it.”

— Carrie Fisher

215. “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

216. “And when you’re young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”

— Carrie Fisher

217. “One thing George never did like other directors – I was to later learn, with dismay – was encourage us to “just have fun with it.” So many directors have urged me in that amused direction, and I always want to say, “Is that what I’m here for? Fun?”

— Carrie Fisher

218. “My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.”

— Carrie Fisher

219. “Not that writing on my notepads managed to actually empty my mind – though some would argue – but I was grateful to relieve the overflow.”

— Carrie Fisher

220. “Take a risk, take a prize.”

— Carrie Fisher

221. “I narrate a life I’m reluctant to live.”

— Carrie Fisher

222. “If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.”

— Carrie Fisher

223. “I want someone to love and treasure and overwhelm.”

— Carrie Fisher

224. “My want can only do so much in terms of changing what’s actually occuring with other people, and I’d like to keep it that way. I don’t want to feel that if I had wanted something more, or had said one other thing, or had worn a different dress, or had been more mysterious, or more open, then I would get something or someone I wouldn’t get otherwise.”

— Carrie Fisher

225. “Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.”

— Carrie Fisher

226. “Sometimes I’m afraid I’m happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt,” she shrugged with true bravado, “I’ll assume I’m happy.”

— Carrie Fisher

227. “I was a lucky girl–without the self-esteem to feel it, or the wherewithal to enjoy what there was to enjoy of it and then let go.”

— Carrie Fisher

228. “But with these human beings you never know. They might not want to hurt you. They might even like you, and that would be the worst possible thing that could happen. Because what can you do with people that like you, except, of course, inevitably disappoint them?”

— Carrie Fisher

229. “I have filled him in to be unobtainable, disinterested, attractive and bored with my company. My ideal mate. Someone to endure, never to enjoy. I am totally at his mercy. I suffer through the silence, imagining that he is suffering my company. That I am merely an alternative for nothing better to do. I’m frightened of the power I have given him over me and of how he will almost certainly abuse it, merely by not being fully aware he has it.”

— Carrie Fisher

230. “We often assume that when the surface offers so little the depth must be unfathomable.”

— Carrie Fisher

231. “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.”

— Carrie Fisher

232. “There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.”

— Carrie Fisher

233. “And this, ladies and gentlemoons, is how my whole new Star Wars adventure began! Like an acid flashback, only intergalactic, in the moment, and essentially real!”

— Carrie Fisher

234. “You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn’t call for it?”

— Carrie Fisher

235. “I signed my likeness away. Every time I look in the mirror, I have to send Lucas a couple of bucks.”

— Carrie Fisher

236. “He was laughing that silent and hard laugh reserved for true enthusiasm.”

— Carrie Fisher

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

— Carrie Fisher

238. “Because what can you do with people that like you, except, of course, inevitably disappoint them?”

— Carrie Fisher

239. “There are a couple of reasons why I take comfort in being able to put all this in my own vernacular and present it to you. For one thing, because then I’m not completely alone with it. And for another, it gives me a sense of being in control of the craziness. 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

240. “But George actually does have a point, because you know when they send out those space probes and they beam back footage of what it looks like up there? All those films ever show are sand and rocks. I’ve never seen a bra in any of that footage.”

— Carrie Fisher

241. “That’s the way it works in movies. Something happens that has an impact on someone’s life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that’s not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, ‘Well, what about the impact?’ You have epiphanies all the time. They just don’t have any effect.”

— Carrie Fisher

242. “Why did all these men find it so easy to be in love with me then and so complex to be in love with me now?”

— Carrie Fisher

243. “I don’t know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand – unless it is an issue of yours – you wouldn’t bother to.”

— Carrie Fisher

244. “Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, “Instant gratification takes too long.” The glib martyr.”

— Carrie Fisher

245. “I was a voracious reader, but part of what that taught me was that I was nowhere near as scholarly as I wanted to be. I was precocious, but how many years beyond your teens can you be called that with sincerity?”

— Carrie Fisher

246. “Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it.”

— Carrie Fisher

247. “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

248. “Kidding yourself doesn’t require that you have a sense of humor. But a sense of humor comes in handy for almost everything else.”

— Carrie Fisher

249. “I may not take cristicism well, but that doesn’t mean I’m not hearing it. I’ll hear it later. Right now I’m storing it in my delayed response area, because it’s hard for me. I wish I was someone who welcomed cristicism and immediately understood its valeu, but I’m not, and if I look unhappy about this, I am.”

— Carrie Fisher

250. “Oh... and we had three pools... you know, in case two broke.”

— Carrie Fisher