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Nia Vardalos
Canadian
Actress
Born:
Sep 24
,
1962
Big
Daughter
Life
Me
People
You
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My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
Nia Vardalos
New Year's
Three
Year
Lose
Starts
Thousand
Ten
Pounds
Between
New
List
Desire
Resolution
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
Life
You
Happy
Idiot
Way
Fearless
Only
Tend
Well
Make
Sort
Jump
Get
Just
Might
Why
Things
There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.
Nia Vardalos
Parenting
You
Guilt
Enough
Constant
Never
Feel
Like
Always
Confident
Your
Suck
America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.
Nia Vardalos
Experience
Immigrant
Immigrants
America
Common
Us
Founded
Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.'
Nia Vardalos
History
Women
Daughter
Believe
Rules
Tell
Rarely
Mischievous
Absolutely
She
Make
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.
Nia Vardalos
War
Birth
Incredible
Settle
Worry
Finding
About
More
Compromise
Doctorate
Freeze
Inequality
Soulmate
Geographical
Than
Get
Eggs
Your
Sociology
You're never too fat for a new purse.
Nia Vardalos
You
Too
Purse
Never
New
Fat
My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.
Nia Vardalos
Daughter
Adopted
Only
She
Known
While
Her
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.
Nia Vardalos
Sad
Mom
Me
Long
Become
Embarrassed
Long Process
Felt
Child
Process
Biological
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.
Nia Vardalos
Positive
Time
Mom
Dark
Positive Person
Bit
Dark Time
Through
Go
Years
Very
Person
Trying
Did
Basically
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.
Nia Vardalos
Me
Money
Focused
Tourists
Most
Looked
Makes
Always
Bunch
Square
Times
Times Square
Tiny
Movie
Loved
Register
Japanese
Shouting
Moments
Connection
Media
Started
I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
Nia Vardalos
Me
You
Better
Parents
Think
Been
Than
Taught
Who
Raised
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
You
Become
Situation
Meet
Flyers
Out
One-Woman
Like
Make
Still
Friends
Handing
Trying
Same
Ends
Working
Working Actor
Your
Show
Who
Suddenly
Actor
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
Sit
Down
Out
Write
Idea
Edit
Just
Screenplays
Ever
Card
I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.
Nia Vardalos
Life
Job
My Life
Get
Moved
Acting
Save
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
Life
Big
Real Life
Hook
John
Someone
Wedding
Writer
Tour
Over
Fair
Looks
Felt
Real
Up
Greek
Depiction
Again
Average
Asked
Publicity
Fat
Below
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
Nia Vardalos
Life
Music
My Life
Motherhood
Out
Most
Cue
Done
Meaningful
Turned
Really
Swell
Ever
Thing
On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.
Nia Vardalos
Day
November
One Day
Cities
Adopted
Over
Were
Children
Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.
Nia Vardalos
Character
Thought
Character Actor
OK
Would
Would-Be
Because
Am
Banana
Sitcom
Eighth
Actor
Fourth
I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.
Nia Vardalos
Emotions
Temper
Feel
Got
How
Greek
I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.
Nia Vardalos
Experience
Parents
Think
Perhaps
Hovering
Universal
When I write something, I constantly rewrite.
Nia Vardalos
Constantly
Something
Write
Rewrite
I believe that you will not get what you want unless you ask for it.
Nia Vardalos
You
Will
Believe
Unless
Get
Want
Ask
We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.
Nia Vardalos
Better
Parents
Mistakes
Just Be
Our
Must
Give
Outside
Make
Came
Repeating
Expectations
Just
Us
Choices
Here
It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.
Nia Vardalos
Business
Money
Make
Owners
Want
Theater
Show
Show Business
Reason
I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke.
Nia Vardalos
Good
Social Media
Joke
Other
No Idea
Idea
How
Than
Anything
Social
Use
Fart
Media
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