Carrie Fisher

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked. ”

Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay. ”

We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!' ”

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras. ”

I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath. ”

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain. ”

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. ”

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. ”

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self. ”

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same. ”