Carrie Fisher: Doing

Carrie Fisher was American actress, screenwriter and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

“The one I wore to kill Jabba (my favorite moment in my own personal film history), which I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

“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?”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

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

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge (1987)

“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!
From the filmmaking documentary Dreams on Spec

“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!”

From the filmmaking documentary Dreams on Spec