Joely Quotes & Sayings

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

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession. — Joely Richardson

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it. — Joely Richardson

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. — Joely Fisher

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose. — Joely Fisher

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth. — Joely Richardson

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press. — Joely Richardson

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

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. — Joely Fisher

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong. — Joely Richardson

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway. — Joely Richardson

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times. — Joely Richardson

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology. — Joely Fisher

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories. — Joely Richardson

I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body. — Joely Fisher

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out. — Joely Fisher

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare. — Joely Fisher

My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my final day of drama school, so it was a nice bridge into the professional world. — Shelley Conn

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 — Joely Fisher

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

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did. — Joely Fisher

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful. — Joely Fisher

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. — Joely Richardson

I loved psychology and I loved history. — Joely Fisher

If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true. — Bruce Greenwood

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for. — Joely Richardson

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

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

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise. — Joely Fisher

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

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family. — Joely Fisher

Conn was a wickedly passionate, fiercely dominant man who loved her too much to ever really hurt her. — Joely Sue Burkhart

I live quite an unsettled life. — Joely Richardson

You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry. — Joely Fisher

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up. — Joely Richardson

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

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good. — Joely Richardson

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses. — Joely Richardson

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film. — Joely Richardson

Eating vegetables makes me feel good. — Joely Fisher

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me. — Joely Fisher

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. — Joely Fisher

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over? — Joely Richardson

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. — Joely Richardson

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

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself. — Joely Richardson

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

I definitely have a Fisher voice. — Joely Fisher

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