476 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

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

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

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.

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments.

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.

I don’t want to make anyone else look stupid. That’s a privilege I reserve for myself.

I was barely old enough to vote but I could easily enlist in the army, and I enlisted into the army of him.

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.

Put it into words – you can’t feel words. I think that if I could give a name to what I feel it would go away. Find the word that describes the feeling and say it over and over until it’s merely a sound.