Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

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• It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Stars

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Thought
  • Moment
  • Roses

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Just

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Clear

• I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Live
  • Edge

• I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Proud

• I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Focus

• There is etiquette in golf, but it's not any harder to learn than what to do at a dinner party. Actually, it's probably easier. And these days, there are a lot more women out there than there used to be. It's not like when I was young. I was always the only girl on the range.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Party

• Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Up

• Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Environment
  • Unique

• I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

  

  James Gray
  • Up

• When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Money
  • Parents

• Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Job
  • Attention

• The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Parents
  • Parent

• To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Comfort
  • Relieve

• Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Different
  • Long
  • Trying

• Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems.

  

  Barry Nalebuff
  • Ideas
  • Problems
  • Search

• My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Mother