Joely Quotes

#1. 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

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

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

#4. 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

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

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

#8. I definitely have a Fisher voice.

Joely Fisher

#9. 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

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

Joely Richardson

#11. 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

#12. So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

Joely Richardson

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Joely Fisher

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

#22. I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

Joely Fisher

#23. I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.

Joely Fisher

#24. I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

Joely Richardson

#25. I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

Joely Fisher

#26. I loved psychology and I loved history.

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

#28. 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

#29. Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

Joely Richardson

#30. Conn was a wickedly passionate, fiercely dominant man who loved her too much to ever really hurt her.

Joely Sue Burkhart

#31. And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

Joely Richardson

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

Joely Richardson

#33. 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

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

Joely Fisher

#35. 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

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

Joely Fisher

#37. I live quite an unsettled life.

Joely Richardson

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

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Richardson

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

Joely Richardson

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

Joely Fisher

#46. Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher

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

Joely Fisher