Joely Fisheris an American actress, and singer. She is best known for her work on television as Paige Clark on Ellen as well as Joy Stark in the Fox sitcom 'Til Death... (wikipedia)
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
We would perform shows in restaurants and we would put on Girl Scout musicals in the living room whether my mother and her friends liked it or not.
You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry.
It's sad to say, but I'm the kid who failed PE in high school. How do you fail PE? I had to repeat it four times my senior year!
Seriously, in our business, we all know there are actresses who are too thin, but that's not what most people look like or are supposed to look like.
I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.
At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.
I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.
I loved psychology and I loved history.
I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.
I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.
I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.
More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny
I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.
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'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.
I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.
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.
I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.
I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
Eating vegetables makes me feel good.
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.
I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.
I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
You don't have to be that skinny, and you don't want to be so overweight that you're unhealthy - somewhere in the middle is just fine.