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I like having written better than I like having acted.

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
Playwright
Screenwriter
Script Doctor
Singer
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Stage Actor
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Burbank
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Carrie Frances Fisher
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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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Still, the word boyfriend starts to sound pathetic after age 30.
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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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I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
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I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture.
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It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
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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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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
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A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink! That's where it's from.
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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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I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.
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Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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