Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.
From Nia Vardalos
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.
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 don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.
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 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 feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors.
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.
It's impossible for success to go to your head with a Greek mom - no way.
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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