You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

—Carrie Fisher

About Carrie Fisher

Portrait of Carrie Fisher

Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress and writer. She starred as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars films (1977–1983) and reprised the role in The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017)—a posthumous release that was dedicated to her—and The Rise...

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Instant gratification takes too long.

—Carrie Fisher

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As the day grew brighter, he grew dimmer, and more of his friends gathered around his bed. They took up their oars and rowed with him as far as they could.

—Carrie Fisher

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I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

—Carrie Fisher

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If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.

—Robert Redford

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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

—Oscar Levant

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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

—Walter Winchell

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