Latest Isla Fisher Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Oasis, Band, Taste In Music

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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!

  Isla Fisher

  Writing, Directors, Lines

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Isla Fisher

  Jobs, Kissing, Thinking

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Fun, Silly, Eye

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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".

  Isla Fisher

  Political, Typical, Comedy

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Tea, Mountain, Morocco

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Isla Fisher

  World, Fashionista

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Editing, Giving, Rooms

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Real, Shy, Costumes

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Book, Going Out, Looks

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

• I have always felt comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

  Isla Fisher

  Idiot, Felt, Tapping

  "Interview with Isla Fisher from “Confessions of a Shopaholic”". Interview with Julie Bonner, www.alloy.com. June 24, 2009.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Fun, Shopping, Ideas

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Thinking, Ideas, Directors

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Thinking, Names, Scotland

  "The Isla Fisher Definitely, Maybe Interview: Mum About Her Borat Bab". Interview by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 20, 2008.

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

  Isla Fisher

  Watches, Taste, Film

  "Isla Fisher Talks Performing Escapist Tricks, Her Chemistry with the Cast, THE GREAT GATSBY, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview on the set, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  People, Trying, Want

  "Isla Fisher Talks Performing Escapist Tricks, Her Chemistry with the Cast, THE GREAT GATSBY, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2013.