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I like to be challenged.
I dive fearless into things.
I definitely have a Fisher voice.
Eating vegetables makes me feel good.
Sometimes I hid my family connections.
I loved psychology and I loved history.
I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.
I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.
I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.
They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.
I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.
People really feed on someone else's tragedies or problems.
I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.
I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.
I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
I've done a couple of Broadway shows and sang before I did any acting.
It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother.
I love work, but no job could ever compare with the job of being a mother.
Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
My sister Tricia Leigh and I vow to be whatever our niece Billie needs us to be.
I think that the best way to celebrate the other people in my family is to go on.
I feel like crying and sadness has brought an actual change to the shape of my mouth.
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
For some people, it's like I can't be a good actress because I grew up with a silver spoon.
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'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.
I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.
My mom says it's an American version of the French name Jolie. My dad says I'm named after Al Jolson.
I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
I'm a storyteller, and everyone in this family expresses themselves through writing to get through life's milestones.
More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny
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 think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people
I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.