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" My blood sugar went out of control. Diabetes runs in my family, so I went to see my doctor. He was like, 'Buck up,' and it was sort of the wake-up call that I needed to hear. "

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" 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

Expectations

Choices

Mistakes

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

" We were so unprepared that when my husband took off to get groceries, and we'd adopted a 3-year-old, he came back with baby formula, a steak and a teething ring. We had no idea what we were doing. But you learn. There's no way to fully prepare. Just eyes wide open - jump. "

" I consider myself a fearless idiot. "

" 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. "

" We would not have 'America's Funniest Home Videos' without drunk brides and grooms falling into cakes. "

" I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it. "

" When I wanted to go away to college in Toronto, my dad said, 'You can't go.' When I got to Toronto, I bought a couch, and my dad cried for the whole weekend because, as my mum told me, 'Now you have furniture; he knows you are never coming back.' "

Nia Vardalos

You

Weekend

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

" I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there. "

" It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so. "

" I have always written from a personal place. "

" 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. "

" I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are. "

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

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

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

" I'm not one of those people that can suddenly start running and hire a Pilates trainer; it's just not my thing. "

" You're never too fat for a new purse. "

" Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK. "

" Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' "

" I was in a fertility situation publicly, so I disappeared. I was very satisfied just being to able to creatively express myself with writing. 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. "

" You're as strong as the actors you're working with, your partners. "

" I have found that every family has a strange remedy for any situation - from 'Use Fantastic to get the scuff off your patent leather shoes!' to 'Soak an aspirin in a glass of water to get rid of a migraine.' "

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

" Like most women, I thought it would be easy once I decided to start a family. I was surprised that Mother Nature kept poking me in the eye, saying, 'Nope, nope, nope.' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Nia Vardalos

Mother

Day

" 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?' "

Nia Vardalos

City

Pilot

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