Joely Fisher

“I feel like crying and sadness has brought an actual change to the shape of my mouth.”

“My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.”

“I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.”

“I have so much to live up to as well as live down.”

“My sister Tricia Leigh and I vow to be whatever our niece Billie needs us to be.”

“I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother.”

“I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.”

“I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.”

“I like to be challenged.”

“For some people, it's like I can't be a good actress because I grew up with a silver spoon.”

“I've done a couple of Broadway shows and sang before I did any acting.”

“I always thought that I would have a recording career.”

“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 definitely have a Fisher voice.”

“I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.”

“I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.”

“I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.”

“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 realized I am living an amazing, gorgeous, large life. I want to share this, and that includes the good, the bad, and the ugly.”

“I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.”