I dive fearless into things.
— Joely Fisher
People really feed on someone else's tragedies or problems.
I think that the best way to celebrate the other people in my family is to go on.
They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.
I have so much to live up to as well as live down.
I am the mother of five children.
I like to be challenged.
When I had arrived in Italy, I had my CD Walkman and about 100 CDs. The song that spoke to me was Kate Bush's 'The Man With the Child in His Eyes,' from 1978.
My sister Tricia Leigh and I vow to be whatever our niece Billie needs us to be.
But unfortunately, when you have a kid, you sometimes eat everything they leave behind. So far today I've had some of her leftover pancakes with peanut butter.
My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
I loved psychology and I loved history.
You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry.
I definitely have a Fisher voice.
I always thought that I would have a recording career.
For some people, it's like I can't be a good actress because I grew up with a silver spoon.
I feel like crying and sadness has brought an actual change to the shape of my mouth.
I've done a couple of Broadway shows and sang before I did any acting.
I realized I am living an amazing, gorgeous, large life. I want to share this, and that includes the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Sometimes I hid my family connections.
I realized that I've always been a storyteller.
In 1987, when I was 19, I was studying musical theater at Boston's Emerson College. My sister, Tricia Leigh, told me about a summer acting retreat in Italy. Mom paid, so off we went.
I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.
I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.
It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.
I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother.
My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.
I love work, but no job could ever compare with the job of being a mother.
I still get surprised that people don't know that I sing.
I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.
What I like to think I've done is try to teach all women and my three female daughters, to teach them to rise above stuff, to find things that move you, to bring humor and laughter to everything that you do, and to realize that no other person defines you. Find what's great about yourself, and band together as women.
I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.
I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience the pain of their split, but it was rough growing up with a father who wasn't there.
I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.
Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.
I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.
I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.
I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.
