Trivia
- Polls
Carrie's appearance in Return of the Jedi has ranked no. 6 in a Poll to find the "Best Bikini Moment on Film". - Carrie's Broadway work includes:
Irene as Debutante (1973-1974).
Censored Scenes from King Kong as Iris (1980).
Agnes of God as Agnes (1982-1983). - While filming Star Wars, Carrie photocopied her breasts, and past copies out to the crew.
- In June 2008, Carrie interviewed Salman Rushdie as part of the Town Hall Writer's Bloc series, held in Los Angeles.
- In April 2008 Carrie starred in a performance of Spy in the House of Me at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. The focus of the perfornmance is Carrie's own life.
- Famous for speaking openly about her battles with bipolar disorder, Carrie contributed to the award-winning Stephen Fry documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.
- When the American Film Institute gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to George Lucas in 2005, Carrie appeared with Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford on stage for the first in many, many years.
- Carrie has a one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, an autobiographical performance, which she tours.
- Carrie's ex-husband Bryan Lourd, and father of her daughter, left her for another man.
- Carrie has the following books published: Postcards from the Edge (1987), Surrender the Pink (1991), Delusions of Grandma (1993), Hollywood Moms (2001) and The Best Awful There Is, 2004.
- Carrie has co-written a screenplay called These Old Broads, as a vehicle for her mother Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor.
- Carrie co-wrote the 1997 Oscar ceremony presentation.
- Carrie publicly opposed Arnold Schwarzenegger's bid to become Governor of California.
- Republican media adviser Gregory Stevens, Carrie's longtime friend was found dead in a guest room at her home on March the 6th 2005.
- Carrie received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Postcards from the Edge at the 1991 BAFTA awards.
- Carrie is 5'1.
- Carrie's two half sisters, Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher are also actresses, and her brother Todd is a producer.
- Carrie was married to musician Paul Simon for less than a year between 1983 and 1984.
- Carrie attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.
- Carrie thought the script for Star Wars was ridiculous.
- Carrie turned down the role of 'Rizzo' in Grease.
- Stood on a box for many of her scenes with Harrison Ford in the Star Wars trilogy, owing to the fact that she was roughly a foot shorter than him and didn't fit into the frame.
- The punk rock group "Blink 182" wrote a song called "A New Hope" in which Fisher's character "Princess Leia" is the lead singer's dream girl.
Quotes
- Carrie: Star Wars taught me everything: how to shoot a gun. How to have my breasts taped. I had the time of my life - and the time of yours.
- (discussing her thoughts on Harrison Ford while making "Star Wars")
Carrie: I had a crush on Harrison for sure. Harrison is great fun when he's had a few drinks. I'm going to get in so much trouble. Once I left the room and came back and he was in the closet not wearing a lot of clothes ... - (on her writing)
Carrie: It's very cathartic for me when I can write about whatever's happened. I'm a warhorse; if I have a situation that's bad, I can handle it. But I can handle it best when I joke about it. That's my writing. - (in a 1983 "Playboy" interview, Carrie was asked if she had earned more money on "Star Wars" than her parents throughout their careers)
Carrie: I think Andy Warhol started that rumor. People like it. It sounds good. I'd like it if I weren't me. I could call and get an accountant and figure it out. My mother made 53 films and did night-club work. They didn't get paid as much as we do now; but, no, it's not true. I've been working for only eight years. - (on what a future book might cover)
Carrie: When I was in Star Wars, I kept diaries. Big books full of what went on, what I thought, what I did. I am going to write them all up as a narrative. - (on how her knowledge of filmaking improved over the years)
Carrie: When I started doing Star Wars, I couldn't figure out what the hell the producer did. I used to watch Gary Kurtz hang around the set and I would make fun of him. I would say, 'Are you producing now? What are you doing?' ... It took me years to figure out that they assemble the picture and hire the [staff]. - (on who was the great love of her life)
Carrie: It's gonna have to be, in some freaked out planet of darkness, Paul Simon. [They were together for 13 years.] And a little bit of Bryan [her daughter's father]; the people I spent time with. But there really hasn't been one. Not really. - (on Tom Cruise's comments on psychiatry)
Carrie: if I find someone that is a gifted anything, a psychiatrist, a podiatrist, a philosopher, a reporter, an actor, a writer, that's going to be interesting. They're going to have something to contribute. I think to completely say, "I don't believe in psychiatry…well I don't believe in scientology!" I'm sure in some whacked out world even that has something of value to offer somebody. - Carrie Fisher: I was still wrangling with my moods, and I was living in a house, which is a lot of responsibility. I had a child, and for her sake I was trying to act as if I hadn't been hurt by her father, who had left me for a man. I was hiding, and I am not used to doing that.
- Carrie Fisher: 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.
- Carrie Fisher: 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.
- Carrie Fisher: 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.
- Carrie Fisher: I always like to start off with a strong opener. I didn't have that line until I'd written a lot of the book because I sort of started writing it from the mental hospital out.
- Carrie Fisher: Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
- Carrie Fisher: A lot of what's wrong with me is, I feel like, a bank error in my favor. It can be fantastic. Whenever I read about it in other books, it's very, very heavy and awful. I was trying to get to the positive side.
