Nia Vardalos Quotes

I can't imagine that I will ever be on anything like 'M*A*S*H' again.

It's not always about playing the lead. It's also about being associated with an important and good film.

My character on 'CNWK' gave me work satisfaction.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

I would love to do a really stupid character on 'The Office'. I'm so an 'Office' fan.

I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.

The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

I don't know what the next acting job will be. I would love to do a comedy.

My plan was to go to New York and do some theatre, and then I got the script for 'Psych.' I was like, 'Ahh - just as I thought I was out, you pulled me back in!' I had a great meeting with the show creator and we laid out the parameters to make the show work: what I would do, what he would let me do.

I love 'The Office.' I'm in the premiere, and I'm maybe gonna shoot another episode this season, but I've been there since the very beginning, so when I found out this is the last year - I am a good Asian kid who was an A student - I wish I could be there to the end to see things through.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

I watched 'The Neighbors' when it first came on, and I thought it was hysterical. And every time I think something just tickles my funny bone, I call my agent and say, 'You know, I like this show. If they're ever looking for somebody, I'd like to work with them.'

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a fortune.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

I hadn't gotten a chance to do a lot of comedy, so 'Hart of Dixie' was a great place where I got a chance to do that and play.