Carrie Fisher: Likeness

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

Carrie Fisher: 98 quotes10 likes

“Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Variant: Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Source: Wishful Drinking

“I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.”

Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge

Source: Postcards from the Edge

“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