Carrie Fisher Quotes

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A comfortable quiet had settled between them. A silence that was like newly fallen snow.

Carrie Fisher
You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

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I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long — it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

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Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavior.

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Show me a child with a simple, happy uncomplicated childhood, and I'll show you Dan Quayle.

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

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Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

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My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

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His eyes... not only undressed you unblinkingly, but shaved your head, called your parents, and refused to refinance your house.

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My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

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"That's the way it works in movies," said Suzanne. "Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?' You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect."

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When I was just becoming conscious — around 13 — is when my parents' careers began to fade. And I saw what it did to them. Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

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I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situation and then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion — a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions.

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Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.

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The fact that I can make somebody laugh at this stuff — it can be very cathartic. If you claim something, you can own it. But if you have it as a shameful secret, you're fucked; you're sitting in a room populated by elephants.

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Describing herself was Suzanne's way of being herself.

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I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

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As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could.

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I'm nervous — the extroverted version of not relaxed. You're tense — the introverted version.

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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything... I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

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Much as I might like to have a companion, I don't know if it's worth it. I may be one of the people who can't do that stuff. We can't all partner.

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I Googled myself without lubricant. I don't recommend it.

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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

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I dream jokes in my sleep, and I make things funny that are not.

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I have gone to the set and you're kind of around in this—it's kind of combat writing when you do rewriting and stuff, and I feel like it's a kind of ambulance chasing. Recently, I did this kind of a (laughing) where you go, Oh, my God, it's bleeding from the second act. Quick! Quick! Give me a suture! No, give me the paddles! This is the third act that's having a heart attack!! The star is coming! The star is coming! And it's this incredibly intense process!

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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

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The one great thing I did, in terms of living out here, is that I never found a heroin dealer.

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You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

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Here's how men think. Sex, work—and those are reversible, depending on age—sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

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