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 extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
Will somebody get this giant walking carpet out of my way?
I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.
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.
Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.
Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports ...
The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,