Carrie Fisher - Stuff Quotes

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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.

Carrie Fisher
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!

Carrie Fisher
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.

Carrie Fisher
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.

Carrie Fisher
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.

Carrie Fisher