Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes

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.

Isla Fisher

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• There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Positive

• NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Hope
  • Law
  • Ocean

• There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Myself
  • Moving
  • Race

• The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Process
  • Self
  • Meaning

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Best
  • Year
  • Artists

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Characters
  • Point
  • Finding

• I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Say
  • Paint
  • Hot

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Stage
  • Presence

• Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Character
  • Mad

• If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Country
  • Power
  • History

• I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Up
  • Me
  • Artist

• If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

  

  Walter Payton
  • You
  • Change
  • Now

• I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Want
  • Freedom

• Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • High
  • Motherhood

• But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

  

  Stefano Langone
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Feelings

• I played cello in my high school orchestra.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • People
  • Great
  • Game

• Mima was like the tree. In this desert where I’d grown up, Mima had shaded me from the sun. She was a tree. How would I live without that tree?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Tree
  • Desert
  • Grown-Up

• 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.

  

  Isla Fisher
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Director