Top 35 Isla Fisher Quotes

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 auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he’d told one of its stars, Naomi Watts, that he was auditioning me, and she’d said, ‘She’s so funny; she’s a great actress – you should hire her.’ What a lovely, kind, and supportive thing to do for another woman.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I’d find it easy to be a working mum. But I found it very hard to be away from my family, even for short periods of time.

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

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.

If I’m stuck in traffic or have a bad moment in my day, I go back to my yoga practice, and I breathe.

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

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

I’m happy with the idea of being a mum first and an actress second – I’m perfectly content for people to think of me as a stay-at-home mum, rather than an actress, if that is their perception.

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

I’ve had no helping hand in Hollywood. But in general, I’ve found that when it comes to getting jobs, what’s meant for you can’t pass you by.

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

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.

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.

Family is 100 per cent my top priority.

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.’

You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, ‘I feel good, I have my health, and I’m so blessed.’ That’s the way I choose to look at it.

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’ve auditioned so many times and been told I’m ‘not sporty enough’ or I’m ‘not sexy.’

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.

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

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 do consider myself to be a feminist.

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.