Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.
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I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
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I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.
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Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?
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At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
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I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.
