Carrie Fisher explains to a little boy what ‘bipolar’ means, at Indiana Comic Con 2015.
I love her so much.
I will always reblog this because it’s the best description of bi-polar I have EVER seen.
(Especially to people who don’t understand what mania means. You aren’t HAPPY, you’re very fast.)
It was SO important to 15-year-old me to learn that PRINCESS LEIA (whose hair I have envied since age 7, btw) was bi-polar.
she is so good and i love her so much, and so so much for TALKING about everything so frankly. (without losing an ounce of her humor).
Once a princess, now a queen.
technically she’s a general
rickman was someone I often thought of when I felt like I was getting nowhere with my life because I remembered he didn’t get his acting break until he was 41 and it made me think it’s ok if you not successful from the age of 18 you can take your time
I’ve just been reading about Alan Rickman’s life, and – wow – it was even more extraordinary.
He first went to art school, and was a successful graphic designer before his passion for theatre won out. He was awarded a scholarship to train at RADA at the late age of 26 – really unusual. As @nondeducible says, he got his Hollywood break at 41 – but as today’s Guardian says, ‘his sensational breakthrough came in 1986’ – on stage – ‘as [the original] Valmont, the mordant seducer in Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses’. [x] That production was a huge sensation at the time. It went on to be filmed – but, sadly, with John Malkovich, not Alan, as Valmont.
The other aspect of Alan Rickman’s life I hope young people will take inspiration from is that he achieved all this from a very ordinary, and not easy, background.
He grew up on a council estate in West London and his Dad died before he was 10. He was a scholarship boy at a selective independent school (he was there because he was smart; other kids’ families would have been richer) – a stark contrast with most of today’s best-loved young British actors, who (with a few exceptions, e.g. Ben Whishaw) are almost all from wealthy backgrounds and public-school educated. After RADA, he even supported himself financially by working as a theatre dresser for bigger names (Sir Ralph Richardson, Nigel Hawthorne).
With the loss of Alan Rickman, we have lost one of a dying generation of British actors who achieved their success from ordinary beginnings, entirely through their own hard work, talent and persistence.
the signs as lines from alexander hamilton
aries: “We fought with him.”
taurus: “You gotta fend for yourself.”
gemini: “The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter.”
cancer: “Me? I loved him.”
leo: “There’s a million things I haven’t done, just you wait.”
virgo: “You could never back down.”
libra: “Me? I died for him.”
scorpio: “See him now as he stands on the bow of a ship, headed for a new land.”
sagittarius: “You never learned to take your time.”
capricorn: “Got a lot farther, by being a lot smarter.”
aquarius: “Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of.”
pisces: “And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain.”
