Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

Carrie Fisher

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• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Conflict
  • Dollar

• I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Learn

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Literature

• I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Appearance

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • God
  • Desire
  • Satan

• Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art

• The stampede toward 'rational expectations' - widely thought to be a 'revolution,' though it was only a generalization of the neoclassical idea of equilibrium-derailed the expectations-driven model building that had just left the station. In the end, this way of modeling has not illuminated how the world economy works.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • World
  • Model
  • Revolution

• Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Great
  • Game
  • Player

• Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.

  

  Tyler Perry

• I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • Home
  • American

• I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Work
  • Art

• Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

  

  Chevy Chase

• I'm a firm believer that your lifestyle plays a key role in the state of your complexion.

  

  Kenza Fourati

• Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

  

  John A. Powell
  • Live
  • Poverty

• I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Family
  • Want
  • Religious

• I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.

  

  Amy Sherald
  • Black

• dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme when I was younger: I would write a song about somebody, and they would come to my show. I wouldn't be able to play the whole thing, because, there would be some giant, loaded secret coming up in like, the third verse, or something.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • May
  • Actors
  • Behave