Carrie Fisher appeared in films such as The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally. Carrie Fisher was the bestselling author who penned no-holds-barred semi-autobiographical novels such as Postcards from the Edge and brutal memoirs The Princess Diarist (the one where she talked about her affair with ‘Han Solo’ Harrison Ford). She acted in TV shows such as 30 Rock. She put up plays, which she also wrote and her acrebic wit was at play as she took to Twitter.
But, Carrie Fisher, for her millions of fans, will always be Princess Leia Organa. The damsel who could handle her own distress. The indomitable one with hair bagels and metal bikini. The princess who faced Darth Vader with a sneer and no fear.
The daughter of Hollywood stars Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, and a survivor of early fame, drug addiction and bipolar disorder, she wrote with unsentimental wit and understanding about her private struggles and about an industry she was raised in but stood apart from. Fisher died Tuesday at 60, four days after falling ill aboard an airline flight. Media reports said the actress had suffered a heart attack. Here are the quotable quotes from the actress who loved her work and hated it. And an author who knew she will first and foremost be considered an actress.
1. “I do believe you’re only as sick as your secrets. If that’s true, I’m just really healthy,” she said in a confessional 2009 interview.
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2. Asked by NPR recently why she wrote about her fling with Ford, who was 15 years older and married, she joked that she could hold back no longer because he had refused to die: “I kept calling and saying, `When are you going to die because I want to tell the story?”’
3. But she was toughest on herself and unafraid to turn trauma into humor. She became the most knowable of celebrities, with a great and generous gift for bringing us into her unusual life. “One of the therapists came in to admit me and asked how long I had been a drug addict,” she wrote in Postcards,” her autobiographical novel that became a movie of the same name. “I said I didn’t think I was a drug addict because I didn’t take any one drug. `Then you’re a drugs addict,’ she said. She asked if I had deliberately tried to kill myself. I was insulted by the question. I guess when you find yourself having overdosed, it’s a good indicator that your life isn’t working.”
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