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Carrie Fisher Biography

Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress, writer, and humorist. Fisher is known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she was nominated for three Saturn Awards. Her other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Soapdish (1991), and The Women (2008). She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances on the television series 30 Rock and Catastrophe. She was posthumously made a Disney Legend in 2017, and in 2018 she was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

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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.

Accident, Actors, Chance, Chances, Happened, Yeah

I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.

Part, Rivalry, Shampoo, Tug, Unpleasantly

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

Block, Brother, Father, Fisher, Taylor

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.

Thinking, Expectations, Drug, Comfortable, Lifetime

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.

Battle, House, Report, Spy

I don't want to be a victim.

Victim, Want

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

Denial, Depression, Firsts, Lesser, People

I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.

Female, Male, Males, Men, Thrill, Way

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

Feels, Hamster, Hamsters, Search, Wheel, Wheels

Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day at Universal. Even the food was good - I mean it was junk but it was really good. The whole thing was like some ideal summer-school experience. It may not have been the best movie ever, but it was certainly the most fun.

Summer, Fun, School, Joe, Movie

I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.

Daughter, Stress, My Daughter, Stresses, Under

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Ambition, Drug, Drugs, Friends, People

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

Dressing, Hear, Look, Looks, People, Stories

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.

Body, Buy, Clothes, Mind, Thinking

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Enough, Smart, Time, Unhappy

I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.

Attention, White, Wife, Woman, Write, Writing

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

Internet, Park, Parks, Rooms, Trailer

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

Caviar, Chop, Disguise, Eggs, Fish, Onions

I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable. . . from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.

Crew, Dating, Father, Mean, Seats, Years

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Call, Know, Know How, Situation, Struggle

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