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

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.

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

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.

If you think that climate change and global warming are not going to affect you, then you are easily misled.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.

Most things we need in life are only inch deep below the ground, all you need to do is dig it out... using the wind that you blow away.So start blowing now...

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

I'd hate wearing suits every day.

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