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

• I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.

  

  Judge Mills Lane
  • Right
  • Final

• I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Free
  • Freedom

• It's funny how people will think I'm being sarcastic a lot and joking. So I'll say, "I like your dress," and they'll go "(bleep) you!" Or I say something serious and they go, "Oh, yeah, ha-ha." They're strangers. They're people who know me from comedy, but luckily I am on pretty much all the time!

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Trying
  • May
  • Things

• I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • May
  • Lost

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

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • May
  • Actors
  • Behave