Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.
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.
So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
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.
My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
Writing is a very calming thing for me.
I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.
It's difficult to know what to say to someone whose partner has cheated on them.
I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.
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.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
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.
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.
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.
People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.
I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.
I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
