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Carrie Fisher, on writing (x)
My latest piece: Our Blessed Rebel Queen, Carrie Fisher
done in watercolour and ink.
Carrie Fisher has always been a great inspiration to me. As someone who suffers from depression and anxiety, I wanted to create a piece to bring me and comfort and strength. To look upon Space Mom and say “yes, I can face today.”
prints available: https://society6.com/product/our-blessed-rebel-queen-carrie-fisher_print
“She’s a wonderful actress and I don’t think she’s had decent parts. She has this instinctive comedic ability that you see in all 23 takes, she doesn’t do bad takes. When you are a writer who’s supposed to be funny and you sit next to her, you want to crawl under the table. The stories she tells seem considerably funnier than what she has to do in the movie [When Harry Met Sally]. If I were Carrie, I would tape myself, type it up, and sell it at the end of the day.” – Nora Ephron
Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic
Carrie Fisher, photographed in 1983
“I could go through a bunch of stories, wagging my tail, eager to please, all in a sometimes desperate attempt to get you to like me. Actually, I don’t want you to like me so much as be the greatest person you ever met. I want to explode in the night sky of your approval.” – Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher, 1977
The photographer scouting locations stops in front of a beer stall in the center of the Farmers Market. Would Carrie Fisher mind posing on a bar stool? Or would that be, uh, bad for her image?
“Bad for my image?” the 30-year-old actress-turned-author echoes incredulously, her voice so loud that everyone standing or sitting nearby starts to stare. “I wrote a partly biographical book about my drug addiction that starts out, `Maybe I shouldn’t have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number,’ and you’re worried about my image? There is not one area of sensationalism that I have not wandered into and trespassed wildly.”
– Los Angeles Times, July 1987
Carrie Fisher, Laura Dern, Elizabeth Taylor, and Anjelica Huston at a party at Carrie’s house, circa 1990′s.
“I would love to give my deepest respects to the super-cool space sis I have in Carrie Frances Fisher. We were like siblings, the good and the bad. We’d have huge fights, (saying) ‘You’re such a phony,’ but we loved each other and what a great thrill it was to come back for The Force Awakens at that time in our lives. There’s a comfort level with each other. We could rely on each other, and there’s a deep respect.” – Mark Hamill
The Skywalker twins, then and now.
“Growing up, I wasn’t really that into [Star Wars]. My mom tried to play it for me, and I sat down and she put it on. And, honestly, my first reaction was, “This is too loud!” And so, I ran out of the room. I was like 6 years old. She’s like, “Please, you have to watch this movie! I’m in it, it’s really cool, there’s like a lot of action. You’ll think I’m a cool mom now!” -Billie Lourd on her mother, Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher, 1973
Carrie Fisher, The Face Magazine, 1987
Then there was the time she promised if I went 1st-she’d heckle my funeral. Fiercely funny-I know she would also like us all to laugh today.
Carrie Fisher, 1978
I could go through a bunch of stories, wagging my tail, eager to please, all in a sometimes desperate attempt to get you to like me. Actually, I don’t want you to like me so much as be the greatest person you ever met. I want to explode in the night sky of your approval.
