Canadian - Actress | September 24, 1962 -
I think it's almost easier to do a kissing scene with someone you don't know.
Nia Vardalos
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Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.
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The white hot publicity that came from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write.
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I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant.
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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?'
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I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.
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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.
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I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors.
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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.
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It's impossible for success to go to your head with a Greek mom - no way.
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On my daughter's first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, 'Just think, in 13 years they'll leave us and go to college!' And I went, 'Gulp.'
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I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.'
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