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
Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.
Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.
I don't like looking at myself. I have such bad body dysmorphia.
I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.
I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
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.
I have been in 'Star Wars' since I was 20. And they're not just doing some goofy sequel, like, to service the hunger of it. It actually has been thought out and it has integrity and they took it seriously, which they didn't have to do, you know? It's hard to do, given the appetite and the angles from which everybody's coming at it.
I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.
I've seen pictures of myself with makeup on, and I look like those women who look like they're wearing makeup so they can look young, and I don't think that's good. They have all these products now called - wait, what's it called, it's my favorite - youth suppressant, or age go away; they don't work.
What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.