Joely Fisher Quotes

I stay in my own little zone, and that’s good for me.

For some people, it’s like I can’t be a good actress because I grew up with a silver spoon.

I didn’t finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

When I had arrived in Italy, I had my CD Walkman and about 100 CDs. The song that spoke to me was Kate Bush’s ‘The Man With the Child in His Eyes,’ from 1978.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

I love work, but no job could ever compare with the job of being a mother.

I’m obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn’t.

I realized that I’ve always been a storyteller.

I just believe that whatever you put into your system you’re going to see on your face and your body.

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

What I like to think I’ve done is try to teach all women and my three female daughters, to teach them to rise above stuff, to find things that move you, to bring humor and laughter to everything that you do, and to realize that no other person defines you. Find what’s great about yourself, and band together as women.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

I have so much to live up to as well as live down.

I definitely have a Fisher voice.

I’ve never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

I dive fearless into things.

I still get surprised that people don’t know that I sing.

More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you – but at least it will make you skinny

Sometimes I hid my family connections.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people’s careers and compare.

I’m sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

They say seven stages of grief. I think it’s more like 77.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.

My mom says it’s an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I’m named after Al Jolson.

I’ve done a couple of Broadway shows and sang before I did any acting.

I feel like crying and sadness has brought an actual change to the shape of my mouth.

I’m a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life’s milestones.

I realized I am living an amazing, gorgeous, large life. I want to share this, and that includes the good, the bad, and the ugly.