Carrie Fisher - biography

“As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don’t.”

“Females get hired along procreative lines.  After 40, we’re kind of cooked.”

“Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.  People-pleasing.  going on those interviews and jamming your whole personality into getting the job, ingratiating yourself to people you wouldn’t fucking spit on if they were on fire.”

“I’m fond of kissing.  It’s part of my job.  God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.”

“You look at Harrison Ford and you listen.  He looks like he’s carrying a gun, even if he isn’t.”

“I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things.  It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.”

“I really love the internet.  They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.”

“I was born into big celebrity.  It could only diminish.”

“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.”

“It’s very good to get through [drugs] while you’re still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.”

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

“I am a spy in the house of me.  I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me.  I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.”

“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 spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.”

“I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.”

“Instant gratification takes too long.”

“Drugs made me feel more normal.”

“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.”

“The manic end of is a lot of fun.”

“For Star Wars, they had me tape down my breasts because there are no breasts in space.  I have some.  I have two.”

“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

“People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit.  Yes, we all knew.  The only one who didn’t know was George.”

“I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.”

“I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.”

“Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.”

“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.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

Carrie Fisher has appeared in the following films:
Shampoo (1975)
Star Wars (1977)
Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video (1979)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Under the Rainbow (1981)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Garbo Talks (1984)
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
The Time Guardian (1987)
Appointment with Death (1988)
The ’burbs (1989)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Loverboy (1989)
She’s Back (1989)
Sibling Rivalry (1990)
Sweet Revenge (1990)
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
This Is My Life (1992)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Famous (2000)
Heartbreakers (2001)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Wonderland (2003)
Stateside (2004)
Undiscovered (2005)
Cougar Club (2007)
Suffering Man’s Charity (2007)
The Women (2008)
White Lightnin’ (2009)