Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
Carrie Fisher
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
Gail Z. Martin
If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
Dan Barber
If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
Daniel Boulud
As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
J. C. Watts
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
Taylor Schilling
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
Ralph Adams Cram
Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
Yancy Butler
It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
Yuri Lowenthal
Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving.
Anne McKevitt
If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.
Betty Furness
I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
Talulah Riley
I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
William Petersen
Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
Carrie Fisher