Top 100 Quotes About Carrie Fisher
#1. The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.
Donald Faison
#2. As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
Jane Green
#3. Billie Katherine Lourd Is the daughter of Carrie Fisher and Brian Lourd. She thinks she would do a good job playing Princess Leia. But really, she wouldn't. -Anonymous
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#4. My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
Courtney Love
#5. Our impatience is so implacable that, as actress-author Carrie Fisher quipped, even "instant gratification takes too long.
Carl Honore
#6. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#8. I actually met Carrie Fisher a couple of years ago. When I told her that she was my first crush, she insisted that we get married and have a reality show about it. I'm lucky to have made it out of that weekend without getting married.
Joe Manganiello
#9. I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, Aww. They've just been told.
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#13. A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
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#14. Actually, he told me later that I had turned him gay . . . by taking codeine again. And I said, "You know, I never read that warning on the label." I thought it said heavy machinery, not homosexuality - turns out I could have been driving those tractors all along! Turning
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#15. What's the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little
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#16. It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."
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#17. The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons - a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct
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#18. Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
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#19. 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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#20. 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.
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#21. We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
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#22. Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
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#23. You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.
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#24. All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.
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#25. Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.
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#26. You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.
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#27. I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
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#30. Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?
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#31. Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
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#32. I've got to learn something from my mistakes instead of establishing a new record to break.
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#33. Clothes falling away signals a situation that I'll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don't dress it up, don't expect talk to, either.
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#34. --when men approach me to let me know that I was their first love, lets just say I have mixed feelings. 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?
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#35. Anyway, at a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become worried about my obviously ever-increasing drug ingestion. So she ended up doing what any concerned parent would do. She called Cary Grant.
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#36. There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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#37. I not only feel better about myself because these people are also fucked up (and I guess this gives us a sense of community), but I feel better because look how much these fellow fuckups managed to accomplish!
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#38. i am someone who wants very much to be popular. 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. I want to explode on your night sky like fireworks at midnight on New Year's Eve in Hong Kong.
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#39. I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.
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#40. It's not nice being inside my head. It's a nice place to visit but I don't want to live in here. It's too crowded; too many traps and pitfalls.
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#41. In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
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#42. So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
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#43. 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!
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#44. Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.
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#45. Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
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#46. I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
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#47. I don't know how anyone can drink alcohol, just based on the taste.
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#48. 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.
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#49. From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
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#50. Suzanne sat in Roger's chair, staring at the reflection of her dread morning face. Roger browsed his cassette rack. "Do you want calming or stimulating?" he asked her.
Suzanne mulled it over for a few moments. It was a question she had asked herself about men.
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#51. I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
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#52. I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs ... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
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#53. I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.
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#54. No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
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#55. I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.
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#56. Baby, the fact that you know that's funny is going to save your whole life.
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#57. But vows seemed ridiculous -- it was hard enough to keep appointments.
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#58. Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.
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#59. Not that writing on my notepads managed to actually empty my mind - though some would argue - but I was grateful to relieve the overflow.
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#60. Kidding yourself doesn't require that you have a sense of humor. But a sense of humor comes in handy for almost everything else.
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#61. Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
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#62. One of those unfortunate women who did not find nice men interesting. She found undesirables desirable. She sought out unpleasant boyfriends, then complained about them as though the government had allocated them to her.
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#63. We lie buried together during the night and haunt each other by day.
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#64. Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports ...
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#65. 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.
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#66. Do you or do you not like wearing earrings in your mouth that will one day smell like your ex-boyfriend's dick?
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#67. I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.
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#68. I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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#69. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.
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#70. Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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#71. My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.
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#72. Years ago, there were tribes that roamed the earth, and every tribe had a magic person. Well, now, as you know, all the tribes have dispersed, but every so often you meet a magic person, and every so often, you meet someone from your tribe.
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#73. Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
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#74. It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
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#75. I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.
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#76. Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.
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#77. You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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#78. And I ultimately not only addressed it, I named my two moods Roy and Pam. Roy is Rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood, and Pam is Sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs. (Pam stands for "piss and moan.") One mood is the meal, and the next mood is the check.
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#79. Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
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#80. Recently I learned this amazing thing. If you become addicted to pain killers, it can go very, very wrong for you. Who knew?
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#81. (I always thought that they should make an epidural that works from the neck up, which was a condition I aspired to for most of what I laughingly refer to as my adult life.)
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#83. I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.
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#84. The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
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#85. I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions
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#86. Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
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#87. I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.
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#88. Maybe no man is an island, but some sure look like one.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
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#92. People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
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#93. 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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#94. Samuel Johnson once said that remarrying (and he's not talking about marrying the same person here, just remarrying) is the "triumph of hope over experience." So for me, remarrying the same person is the triumph of nostalgia over judgment.
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#95. I was barely old enough to vote but I could easily enlist in the army, and I enlisted into the army of him.
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#96. Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
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#97. The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.
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#98. My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
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#99. I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
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#100. It's important to be able to distinguish the difference between a problem and an inconvenience.
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