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

• 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
  • Start

• 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

• People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Policy
  • Finding

• As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.

  

  Lucy Deakins
  • Important
  • Character
  • Strong

• Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Vision
  • Solutions
  • Depends

• We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Jon Heder, Danny Masterson and Aly Michalka. It's a great cast and a beautiful film.

  

  Joel David Moore
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Comedy

• The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Attitude
  • Idea
  • Sunshine

• 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