Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes

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.

Isla Fisher

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• Comedy
• Joke

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• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Single

• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Land

• It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Business
  • Pleasure
  • Temple

• True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

  

  Barton Booth
  • True
  • Sun
  • Needle

• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Emotions
  • Negative

• When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Art

• My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• I don't know, I like the word sassy.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Know
  • Like
  • Sassy

• What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

  

  B. B. King
  • History
  • Nature
  • Me

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Difficult
  • More
  • Little

• The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Myself

• Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fun
  • House
  • Black

• Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Free
  • Rich

• There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Law

• Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Better

• Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

  

  Bill Budge

• I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

  

  Jerry West

• 'The Leftovers' takes place three years after 2% of the population has gone missing. And it's about how that changes society. Cults form as a result, and it drastically changes home life for a lot of people, including the Garvey family, which is the family I belong to.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who's a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederate family who's been taken over by the army when they come into the city in Virginia. He strikes up a romance with the youngest daughter in the house, which obviously causes some issues for the family.

  

  Chris Wood
  • Up
  • Family
  • House

• That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Money
  • Today

• It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • World
  • School

• 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.

  

  Isla Fisher
  • Family
  • Comedy
  • Joke