The best Quotes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The best Quotes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a 2002 romantic comedy film directed by Joel Zwick and written by Nia Vardalos. An international co-production between the United States and Canada, the film stars Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine, Gia Carides, Louis Mandylor, Andrea Martin, and Joey Fatone. It follows a young Greek-American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

A lot has happened since my big fat Greek wedding. My father passed away, and his last wish was for us to visit his childhood village and reconnect with our roots. So we're having a reunion.
Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding - 3
Toula: "Why? Why do you love me?"
Ian: "Because I came alive when I met you."
The man is the head, but the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head any way she wants.
Maria Portokalos
Maria: "Ian, are you hungry?"
Ian: "Uh no, I already ate."
Maria: "Okay, I make you something."
Maria Portokalos
What do you mean, "he don't eat no meat"? That's okay. I'll make lamb.
Aunt Voula
My brother Nick has two jobs: to cook, and to marry a Greek virgin.
Toula Portokalos
There are three things that every Greek woman must do in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone.
Toula Portokalos
There's two kinds of people: Greeks, and everybody else who wish they was Greek.
Gus Portokalos
My cousins have two volumes; loud and louder!
Toula Portokalos
When I was growing up, I knew I was different. The other girls were blonde and delicate, and I was a swarthy six-year-old with sideburns.
Toula Portokalos
Give me a word... and I'll show you that the root of that word is Greek.
Gus Portokalos
Nice Greek girls who don't find a husband, work in the family restaurant. So here I am, day after day, year after year, thirty and way past my expiration date.
Toula Portokalos
You know, the root of the word Miller is a Greek word. Miller come from the Greek word "milo," which is mean "apple," so there you go. As many of you know, our name, Portokalos, is come from the Greek word "portokali," which mean "orange." So, okay? Here tonight, we have apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit.
Gus Portokalos
I had to go to Greek school, where I learned valuable lessons such as, "If Nick has one goat and Maria has nine, how soon will they marry?"
Toula Portokalos
You better get married soon. You're starting to look... old!
Gus Portokalos
I've never seen my sister this happy, Ian. If you hurt her, I'll kill you and make it look like an accident.
Nick Portokalos
Toula, on my wedding night, my mother, she said to me, "Greek women, we may be lambs in the kitchen, but we are tigers in the bedroom."
Maria Portokalos
If nagging were an Olympic sport, my Aunt Voula would win a gold medal!
Toula Portokalos
My family is big and loud but they're my family. We fight and we laugh and yes, we roast lamb on a spit in the front yard. And where ever I go, what ever I do they will always be there.
Toula Portokalos
Here I am, standing here, your own personal Greek statue.
Toula Portokalos