Carrie Fisher Quotes
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Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. 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.
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You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.
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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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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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Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.
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I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.
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My favorite one to see is the metal bikini on men.
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I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.
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This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.
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There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.
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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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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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Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
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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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I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right.
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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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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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My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.
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I did masses of opiates religiously.
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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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[I was filmed] against a blue screen [in the Star Wars]. All the rest came later, in Lucasland. They did have me take gun lessons, though. I went to the same guys who taught Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver.
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Instant gratification takes too long.
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What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.
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I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."