Nia Vardalos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Children #Spring #Love Is
My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
-- Nia Vardalos

#New Year #Years #Desire
You're never too fat for a new purse.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Purses #Fats
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.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Fearless #Might #Way
I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Thinking #Parent #Taught
Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Faces #Fats
I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Jobs #Acting #Moved
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.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Trying #Actors #Flyers
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.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Children #Simple #Easy
I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Greek #Looks #Attractive
Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Mother #Country #Daughter
I would rather be called funny than pretty.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Inspirational
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.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Dad #Musical #Magic
We live in an unsafe world.
-- Nia Vardalos

#World
I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Thinking #Skins
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Writing #Ideas #Down And
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Meaningful #Motherhood #Done
In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Mother #Daughter #Son
My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Mother #Daughter #My Daughter
If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Inspirational #Mother #Daughter
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Men #May #Way
Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Mark #Scabs #Turns
Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . Iâ€™m not a brave personâ€” Iâ€™m more of a fearless idiot.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Brave #Fearless #Scare
On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Children #Cities #One Day
Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Men #Issues #Weight
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.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Real #Average #Greek
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Attitude #Greek #Wish
Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true.
-- Nia Vardalos

#Writing #Kissing #Motherhood

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