Nia Vardalos Quotes

We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

I think it's important to live your life the way you want to live it. Don't live your life in fear.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be.

Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I took back my life.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look.

I can live my life, I can be at Disneyland and eat fried chicken, and that's my choice.

People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

I won't let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

My generation is one of the first generations of "choiceful" women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.