Carrie Fisher Quotes

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Carrie Fisher

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 21, 1956

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

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I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

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All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

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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.

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Drugs made me feel more normal.

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Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

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I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

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I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

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

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I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

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I think I do overshare. It's my way of trying to understand myself.

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If you claim something, you can own it.

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I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.

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What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.

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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

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I don't want to be a victim.

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It's difficult to know what to say to someone whose partner has cheated on them.

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