Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Frances Fisheris an American actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogyand Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Fisher is also known for her semi-autobiographical novels, including Postcards from the Edge, and the screenplay for the film of the same name, as well as her autobiographical one-woman play, and its nonfiction book, Wishful Drinking, based on the show. Her other film roles include Shampoo, The Blues Brothers, Hannah and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 October 1956
CityBeverly Hills, CA
CountryUnited States of America
My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.
Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.
I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.
I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.
Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.