Carrie Fisher

I've totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.

I fear dying. Anything with pain associated with it, I don't like.

It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

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.