Joely Fisher Quotes

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

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

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

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

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

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

It’s challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

I like to be challenged.

But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I’ve had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

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

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

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

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

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother.

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.

You want the best for your kid, but everybody’s career is completely different in this industry.

I was 2 when my parents – actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher – divorced. I was too young to experience the pain of their split, but it was rough growing up with a father who wasn’t there.

At this point, I wouldn’t be able to digest meat, and I don’t like eating things with faces.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

I realized that I’ve always been a storyteller.

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

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

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

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

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

People really feed on someone else’s tragedies or problems.

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

I am the mother of five children.

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

My sister Tricia Leigh and I vow to be whatever our niece Billie needs us to be.

I don’t believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.