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.

Nia Vardalos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 24, 1962

Topics

FriendsTryingYouSituationMeet

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Jerry Saltz

LoveArtMoneySupportPeopleWorld

What's amazing is how rock n' roll lasted. It started losing its commercial power in the late 1990s. But think of swing, which we think of as this big music before rock n' roll. It only lasted five years in total. So, rock going 50 years is amazing, because young people want new things.

Robert Hilburn

MusicPowerNew ThingsLosingPeople

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

Anna Deavere Smith

DoorKnowWayMy OwnNeverOwn

Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.

Stefon Diggs

LoveMindGameYouWillMess

I take things one step at a time.

Simone Biles

TimeStepThingsTake

There are times when you sit down, and you're just like, 'Man, I don't know if I can do it right now.' Take a second - go to the woods and just hang out, or go to Yosemite and check it out. Be in nature for a little while; clock out - which is super healthy, especially for creative types. Honestly, for everyone. Everyone needs that at times.

Ross Lynch

NatureManCreativeWoodsYouDown

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'

Chelsea Handler

SchoolTeenSisterHigh SchoolThink

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

Christian Louboutin

TeacherSchoolTableAlwaysBecause

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Arabella Weir

OpportunityLearnLuxuryNowCost

The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction and aspiration and from a willingness to struggle for his ways and beliefs.

Ariel Sharon

PowerStruggleDirectionPerson

I have been blessed, working both at the local level on a community school board, the state assembly, four years in the state senate, and now almost 12 years in the House of Representatives.

Phil Gingrey

CommunitySchoolBlessedHouseNow

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Peter Lerangis

MusicTechnologyRichGrowApple

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