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. Nia Vardalos More Quotes by Nia Vardalos More Quotes From Nia Vardalos 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. Nia Vardalos simple easy children 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 actors ends trying I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A. Nia Vardalos moved acting jobs Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it. Nia Vardalos fats faces I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are. Nia Vardalos taught parent thinking I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love. Nia Vardalos skins thinking I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Nia Vardalos writing cards ideas Being an actor/ writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to be cast into something and then you create the role. You almost have a voice inside of you telling you what you might want to play and be able to play. It's hard, but once that thing comes out of the printer and you hold those warm pages to your cheek it's great. It's a huge sense of accomplishment. Nia Vardalos accomplishment responsibility waiting In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. Nia Vardalos daughter mother son My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted. Nia Vardalos adopted daughter mother 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. Nia Vardalos may men way I love romance. I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love. Nia Vardalos romance skins thinking Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot. Nia Vardalos brave-person fearless scare And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. Nia Vardalos motherhood done meaningful I am not anti-man. I am married to a man... I have a father and a brother... I love men. But there is something really lacking when Cake is nominated. How does Julianne Moore win for Best Actress but her film isn't nominated for Best Screenplay? How does Gone Girl become such a critically-acclaimed and box-office hit but its scriptwriter, Gillian Flynn, isn't nominated for Best screenplay. It's disgusting! Nia Vardalos girl brother father I feel the same way when I meet somebody in Los Angeles, because I'm from Winnipeg. I'm just a very ordinary girl that something extraordinary happened to. So, I'll go to an event and, say, stand next to Charlize Theron and be like, "Oh my God! This is incredible!" And then you get to talk to her and you find out she's a real person. She's a mom and very interesting. I'm constantly thunderstruck by people that I admire. Nia Vardalos girl mom real I am feeling like it's time to share it. We have been keeping it a secret for so long, you know, you work on a movie for a really, really long time and we just had so much fun laughing as we made the movie and now I just want to hear the audience hear it. Nia Vardalos entertainment America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us. Nia Vardalos us immigrants experience america Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.' Nia Vardalos women daughter believe history I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness! Nia Vardalos your out find sexiness
