476 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

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?

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we’ve managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

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.

I do believe you’re only as sick as your secrets.

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.

Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.

You’re not famous until you’re a Pez dispenser.

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.

I feel like what I look like is government issue, it’s pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That’s me.