Nia Vardalos Quotes

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.

I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I love comedy, and I always wanted to go that way, but I felt so passionate about drama.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

After my first play, I realised that comedy was my forte - rather than being a dukhi heroine, I would rather do comedy.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I came home, I realised I'd have to have a serious stab at it. I didn't have an agent and didn't have the traditional drama school showcase, so I started a comedy group with a couple of friends.

Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.