Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

[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.

Carrie Fisher

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• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Mind
  • She
  • Trust

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Living
  • Instruments

• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Respect

• With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important
  • Thought
  • Cancer

• The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Assumption
  • Persistence

• Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Women
  • Live
  • Judge

• I think writing novels has taught me more about the value of patience and being organized. I've learned to use timelines and wikis to track decisions and make sure everything still fits together. It's both easier and harder than writing short fiction.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Value

• They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Boxing

• I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Hate
  • Reading
  • Magic

• You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Time
  • Great
  • Giving

• When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about 'I'm gonna do this next...' I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart's got a little lonesome in it.

  

  Ashley Monroe
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.

  

  Joanna Krupa
  • Attention

• I think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Road

• The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • People

• And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Faults
  • Excuse

• My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

  

  Christopher Parker
  • Time
  • School
  • Parents

• It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • War
  • Control
  • Tanks

• There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

  

  Doug Larson
  • Children

• [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.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • War
  • Guy
  • Gun