Nia Vardalos quotes:

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

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.

Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.

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.

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.

On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

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.

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!

Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.

We live in an unsafe world.

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.

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.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

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.

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

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.

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.

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.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.

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.

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.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

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.