Top 50 Nia Vardalos Quotes

It’s not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it’s O.K. to be different.

I’m not one of those people that can suddenly start running and hire a Pilates trainer; it’s just not my thing.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that’s why I tend to just jump into things. I’m sort of a fearless idiot that way.

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

I have had the same person show up in a few cities with flowers. A lovely gentleman who gave me a picture of himself. I came home, gave it to Ian, and said, ‘If I go missing, here’s the guy.’

My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic.

We absolutely have to support our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. We just must. It’s not fair that they don’t get to live an authentic life.

I love romance. I think our skin clears up and we’re nicer when you are in love.

Let’s face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.

I believe that you will not get what you want unless you ask for it.

It’s called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

It’s impossible for success to go to your head with a Greek mom – no way.

My husband is an only child of only child parents.

My mum came to the set of my second movie ‘Connie and Carla,’ and she had made food for the whole cast, including mini bun cakes with little flowers sticking out of each one.

I started in Shakespeare. I’m classically trained, which, how hilarious is that? Then one night, I saw Second City and thought, ‘Wow, that’s what I want to do.’ But I never thought it would morph into screenplay writing.

I’ve had designers say to my face, ‘Oh, I want to dress you now that you’re skinny.’ And that’s really rude.

I did go through a bit of a dark time during the years I was trying to be a mom. But I’m basically a very positive person.

I believe that there are moments in everyone’s lives where a door flings open, and if you’re terrified of what’s on the other side, you must walk through it.

I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories – grateful actors and non-grateful actors.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I’ve ever done with my life. Really.

Don’t settle; don’t compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.

The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.

I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don’t do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

We live in an unsafe world.

I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don’t do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

There are benefits to adopting a toddler. They can tell you what’s wrong. And – everything we did with our daughter was a first. Her first tooth fairy. Santa.

I couldn’t get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

It wasn’t easy to adopt an American child. Actually it’s quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

Ever since I became a parent, time moves far too quickly. My vision always feels like I’m wearing giant kaleidoscope-goggles.

I have always written from a personal place.

I don’t work that much because I am selective.

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!

I’m only happy when people are eating.

The media was always so focused on the money a movie makes. But I was in Times Square, and a bunch of Japanese tourists looked at me and started shouting, ‘Toula!’ I loved it. It’s these tiny moments of connection that register with me the most and always have.

Socially, the issue of men’s weight is simply not a big deal. Let’s face it: Russell Crowe is fat, and no one ever talks about it. Alec Baldwin just orders his suits a size bigger, and we continue to swoon.

On the publicity tour of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’ I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn’t have a biological child.

We were so unprepared that when my husband took off to get groceries, and we’d adopted a 3-year-old, he came back with baby formula, a steak and a teething ring. We had no idea what we were doing. But you learn. There’s no way to fully prepare. Just eyes wide open – jump.

You’re as strong as the actors you’re working with, your partners.

I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories – grateful actors and non-grateful actors. I’m always so appreciative that this has happened for me – and against all odds – as a middle child from Canada. I’m very grateful.

I don’t temper how I feel. I’m Greek. I’ve got emotions.

I had worked for ten years in theater; I had worked at Second City in Chicago. Then I got to Hollywood, and I was like, naively, ‘Where’s my pilot?’

I think it’s probably a universal experience that all parents think they’re not hovering, but perhaps we all are.

Socially, the issue of men’s weight is simply not a big deal.

My favorite part of any playdate comes later when I get to carry my exhausted and sleeping daughter to the car. Is there anything more trusting than a sleeping child completely and utterly leaning into your body?

I’m not proud of this, but I had a lot of misconceptions about American foster care. To me, foster care meant that a child would be placed with you, then taken away. I didn’t want to go through all of that.

I think the goal is parity: I try to be pro-woman without being anti-man, and I hope and wish that men could do the same in that when they look at the screenplay, they say, ‘Wait, wait, wait – is my daughter represented here, is my wife represented here? Is my sister represented?’