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

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.

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

You're never too fat for a new purse.

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.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Experiencing life with your whole heart will not only bring more of what you desire but often it will surpass what you could have imagined!

They’re so brave, " she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that, " she said scornfully.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

I don't miss it. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

I like to have a simple workplace.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable