- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fishnet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're never too fat for a new purse.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
- Motherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.
- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an unsafe world.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had designers say to my face, 'Oh, I want to dress you now that you're skinny.' And that's really rude.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.'
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.
- Basic Human Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equal and should be afforded the basic human rights that we all deserve.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We absolutely have to support our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. We just must. It's not fair that they don't get to live an authentic life.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I write something, I constantly rewrite.
- Fearless
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a fearless idiot.
- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had the same person show up in a few cities with flowers. A lovely gentleman who gave me a picture of himself. I came home, gave it to Ian, and said, 'If I go missing, here's the guy.'
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women are so many things. We're sisters, mothers, wives. There are so many things we encompass.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020