My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.
Interpretation
Carrie Fisher reflects on how her parents prioritized their relationship with their audience over their relationship with her.
In this quote, Carrie Fisher expresses her feelings about her parents' dynamic relationship with their audience in comparison to their relationship with her. She uses the metaphor of 'muscle with blood' to illustrate the strength and vitality of that connection, highlighting how their performance and interaction with the audience became a significant competitor for her parents' attention, leaving her to grapple with feelings of neglect in her childhood.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about parental relationships in the entertainment industry.
I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.
Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.
I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!
I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each otherβs well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.
But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.
Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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