Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

Carrie Fisher

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I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone. by Carrie Fisher

I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.

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My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary. by Carrie Fisher

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

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I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

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I just admire my mother very much. by Carrie Fisher

I just admire my mother very much.

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Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30... by Carrie Fisher

Still, the word "boyfriend" starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belon... by Carrie Fisher

Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.

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Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony i... by Carrie Fisher

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

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You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

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I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more... by Carrie Fisher

I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.

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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 went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

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[I was filmed] against a blue screen [in the Star Wars]. All the rest came later, in Lucasland. They did have me take gun lessons, though. I went to the same guys who taught Robert De Niro for Taxi Driver.

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If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

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I can like men who are a little light in the loafers. by Carrie Fisher

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

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I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.

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I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

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When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

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I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats. by Carrie Fisher

I like birds and dogs. I'm allergic to cats.

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I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up. by Carrie Fisher

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting t... by Carrie Fisher

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

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