Isla Fisher quotes:

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

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

  • I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

  • 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.

  • Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

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

  • Family is 100 per cent my top priority.

  • When you're younger, being a redhead is... Well, my two brothers teased me no end.

  • After 'Wedding Crashers' I was just surprised as to the lack of comedic female material there is. So I had to start working and getting stuff out there for myself.

  • I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

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

  • Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

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

  • I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

  • I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.

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

  • You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

  • 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.

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

  • When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don't want to be that actor, when a poor director is trying to get through a movie, that you're asking at every second to discuss performance.

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

  • 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 think there is nothing sexier than laughter lines.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.'

  • I'm not actually very good at the maintenance thing. I don't buff, exfoliate, pluck, rinse, moisturise, suck, bleach... whatever all those women do.

  • 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 think audiences have always wanted to see women in the movies, but every time a movie like 'Bridesmaids' comes out, everyone says, 'Oh how funny, people do want to see women in the movies.'

  • I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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".

  • I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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 have always felt comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

  • 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.

  • 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 do consider myself to be a feminist.

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

  • 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.

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

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