I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.
From Carrie Fisher
I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years.
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.
I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.
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 found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
The manic end of is a lot of fun.
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