A biography for Carrie Fisherhasn’t been written yet.
“It creates community when you talk about private things.”
“I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'”
“There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.”
“It's difficult to know what to say to someone whose partner has cheated on them.”
“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”
“I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.”
“I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.”
“I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.”
“You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.”
“I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.”
“What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's not a man that can go and say, 'Look, can you get me in any faster? I'm Mickey Mouse.' Whereas I can go in and say, 'Look, could you get me a table faster? I'm Princess Leia.'”
“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.”
“I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.”
“To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.”
“I outlasted my problems.”
“He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.”
“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.”
“I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don't like that it makes me feel good about myself. It's not who I am.”
“You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.”
“I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.”