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

Carrie Fisher

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Carrie Fisher
Age: 60 †
Born: 1956
Born: October 21
Died: 2016
Died: December 27
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Novelist
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Script Doctor
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Carrie Frances Fisher
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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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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
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I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right.
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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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You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.
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My favorite one to see is the metal bikini on men.
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Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.
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I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, are you okay? And then you think, Oh, maybe I'm not.
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I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.
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Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
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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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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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I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
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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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