Carrie Fisher Quotes

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Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

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The dark-haired man stood observing her steadily, with his arms crossed protectively in front of him, wearing an expression only a cello could play.

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I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.

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Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

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Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life—more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time—well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

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In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

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Like Woody Allen said, comedy is tragedy plus time. But mental illness was pretty funny right away.

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You know how they say you're your own worst enemy? Well, you're not. Read what they say about you on the Internet if you look fat. I don't give a shit, by the way, but they say I look like Yoda.

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Mostly, you write a script and someone's gonna rewrite you. They get hundreds of—not hundred but they get ten writers to write something. If you have a big budget, you can go and get a lot of people to write on script.... I just actually heard that somebody said, 'Well, your screenplay got bought and now someone like Carrie Fisher will come in and rewrite you.' And I feel terrible, you know, because that's not what I mean to do. My idea was never to raid something and trash it, you know. 'Cause that – that's more work for me!

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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplussed by the event that is my life.

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Hallucinogens were another big thing for me, because I felt normal on acid.

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Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

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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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She finally found grudges to be unwieldy things — hold those, and pretty soon you have to drop amusements to maintain your grudge grip, blow your energy on that and you may have none left for mischief.

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My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

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Drugs became a way of blunting the sharpness of the juts. Juts-tapositioning oneself. I always wanted to blunt and blur what was painful. My idea was pain reduction and mind expansion, but I ended up with mind reduction and pain expansion.

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Revenge may not be a particularly higher consciousness-oriented activity.

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I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

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I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise....

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I'm transparent about all this stuff because it's out there anyway, and if it's going to be out there anyway, I want my version. It was out there that I was in a mental hospital, it was out there that I was in rehab, and it was always Carrie Fisher's Tragic Life.

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From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

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What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

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The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

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I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

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Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

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I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

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If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

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Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

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