Isla Fisher Quotes

You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

I think kissing scenes always feel awkward but there's just no way around it. But it's a part of the job.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks!

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.

I have very eclectic taste in music. I like everything from Nirvana, which is featured in the film, to world music, to orchestral and jazz. For me, the nineties were about Oasis, because I was travelling around Britain when that band exploded onto the music scene.

To make lashes curl better, take a hair dryer to your eyelash curler for one or two seconds before using it.

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while men in comedies get to do all the fun, silly stuff and muck around. Sometimes you just have to search hard for a role or create one for yourself.

I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

In Hollywood, you feel a responsibility to look less disheveled than you are. But I'm a mom, and I'm not good at putting time into prepping.

My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In Scotland, it's a common name.

I tell my girlfriends - 'Imagine if all the time you put into waxing and primping, you took all of that energy and put it into something useful.'

Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

I have always felt comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

I'm not a fashionista. I don't have much experience in that world.

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's released calms you down and connects you to the baby.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

I loved Morocco. It's very exotic and different from anywhere I've ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional.

Family is 100 per cent my top priority.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

I do consider myself to be a feminist.

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.

I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.

I breastfed both my kids for two years so, you know it was very tiring emotionally and physically.

Even though it'll never be flat again, my stomach is my favorite part of my body because it reminds me of my greatest achievement - my babies.

In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.

I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.

I always try to choose material that I would want to go and see. I don't choose movies anymore to be in that other people wouldn't want to see.

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own.

You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.