Carrie Fisher Quotes

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Carrie Fisher

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 21, 1956

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

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I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

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I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

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Leia follows me like a vague smell.

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I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath.

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She's an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much.

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Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

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My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

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There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

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I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

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I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20.

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People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

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I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.

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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

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Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.

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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.

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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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It creates community when you talk about private things.

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