Carrie Fisher Quotes
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Drugs made me feel more normal.
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If talking were aerobic, I'd be the thinnest person in the world.
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
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I like that - the "you-ish" character.
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You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
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My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
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If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.
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I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.
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I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
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And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
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I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.
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I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me.
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Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!
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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
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I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.
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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
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Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.
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I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
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I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.
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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
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The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.
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I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair. I think that would be funny.