Other Titles • My Big Fat Greek Wedding • Mariage à la grecque (2002)
Quotes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
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Aunt Voula: What do you mean he don't eat no meat? [the entire room stops, in shock] Aunt Voula: Oh, that's okay. I make lamb.
(47 votes)
2
Toula Portokalos: Ma, Dad is so stubborn. What he says goes. "Ah, the man is the head of the house!" Maria Portokalos: Let me tell you something, Toula. The man is the head, but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants.
(38 votes)
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Ian Miller: How do you say "thank you" in Greek? [Nick tells him a Greek phrase. Ian repeats it] Ian Miller: [English translation] Nice boobs.
(35 votes)
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Toula Portokalos: [Pointing to Ian's bruised nose] What happened? Biker fight? nose job? What? Ian Miller: Uh... yeah. Toula Portokalos: No, really. Ian Miller: You don't want to know. Toula Portokalos: Oh I don't know. If I had survived an old lady ass-kicking I would want to brag about it.
(37 votes)
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Maria 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." Toula Portokalos: Eww. Please let that be the end of your speech.
(31 votes)
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Toula Portokalos: [narration] 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.
(14 votes)
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[upon receiving a bundt cake from Mrs. Miller] Maria Portokalos: It's a cake! I know! Thank you! Thank you very, very much. [whispering to another woman, indignated] Maria Portokalos: There's a hole in this cake!
(7 votes)
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Nick Portokalos: Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become. Toula Portokalos: Nick that's beautiful. Nick Portokalos: Yeah that dear Abby really knows what she's talking about.
(7 votes)
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Gus Portokalos: The root of the word Miller come from a Greek word, millah, meaning apple, so there you go. And our name, Portokalos, is come from the word meaning orange. So today here, we have, apples and oranges. We all different now, but in the end, we're all fruit.
(11 votes)
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Ian Miller: What do you do for Christmas with your family? Toula Portokalos: Uh, my mom makes roast lamb. Ian Miller: Mmm... with mint jelly? Toula Portokalos: No. [pause] Ian Miller: And...? Toula Portokalos: And... [pause] Toula Portokalos: I'm Greek, right? Ian Miller: Right? Toula Portokalos: So, what happens is my dad and uncles, they fight over who gets to eat the lamb brain. And then my aunt Voula forks the eyeball and chases me around with it, try to get me to eat it, 'cause it's gonna make me smart. So, you have two cousins, I have 27 first cousins. Just 27 first cousins alone! And my whole family is big and loud. And everybody is in each other's lives and business. All the time! Like, you never just have a minute alone, just to think, 'Cause we're always together, just eating, eating, eating! The only other people we know are Greeks, 'cause Greeks marry Greeks to breed more Greeks, to be loud breeding Greek eaters. Ian Miller: Wow.
(4 votes)
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[last lines] Paris Miller: Mom, I want to go to Brownies. Toula Portokalos: I know. I know. But I promise you this. You can marry anybody you want. Ian Miller: [to Toula] Ah, thanks, baby. [to Paris] Ian Miller: Greek school. Pame! What's that mean? Paris Miller: Let's go. Ian Miller: Let's go. Toula Portokalos: That's pretty good. Ian Miller: Looking good, Gus. Toula Portokalos: Hi, dad. Gus Portokalos: Where you going? Toula Portokalos: Greek school.
(5 votes)
12
Toula Portokalos: [narrating] My dad believed in two things: That Greeks should educate non Greeks about being Greek and every ailment from psoriasis to poison ivy can be cured with Windex.
(4 votes)
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Nick Portokalos: Listen, you know. I really think you should say: eho tria orchidea. It means: everyone, let's come in the house. I think everybody will really like it. Ian Miller: [mispronouncing] Eho tria orchidea? Nick Portokalos: Yeah! That's good! Very good! You got it! Ian Miller: I'm not falling for that again, Nick. Nick Portokalos: What? Ian Miller: Yeah, what. Angelo? How do you say: everyone, let's go into the house? Angelo: Eho tria orchidea! Nick Portokalos: Hum? Ian Miller: Everyone: eho tria orchidea! [in Greek: "I have three testicles!" - everybody laughs and Taki looks at Ian's crotch, surprised]
(3 votes)
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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.
(2 votes)
15
Gus Portokalos: There are two kinds of people - Greeks, and everyone else who wish they was Greek.
(2 votes)
16
Aunt Voula: [to Ian's parents] Now, you are family. Okay. All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the "hormonees." It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the "bobopsy." Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin.
(2 votes)
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Athena: I'm going to The Jewel. Listen, I'll get you some pantyhose. Maria Portokalos: No queen size. They make me look fat.
(2 votes)
18
Aunt Voula: Nikki, how come you no come to curl-a my hairs this morning? Nikki: Ma! I had to drop Dimos at work. And now, I gotta go open the travel agency, because, you know, some jag-off and his big-ass girlfriend are too busy. Angelo: Ma! Tell her I open up the dry cleaners every day, and I think it's about time she did something for a change. Nikki: Excuse me? Do you know who's at the dry cleaner this morning? My husband is at the dry cleaner! Angelo: You're always at the beauty parlor, with your nails and your hair and everything. Nikki: Don't you talk about my hair! You are so lazy! You and your big-ass girlfriend do nothing! Angelo: Did somebody sit on your hair? I mean, it looks a little flat there. Nikki: Angelo... bite me! Aunt Voula: Disgusting! Be a lady!
(2 votes)
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Gus Portokalos: Kimono, kimono, kimono. Ha! Of course! Kimono is come from the Greek word himona, is mean winter. So, what do you wear in the wintertime to stay warm? A robe. You see: robe, kimono. There you go!
(2 votes)
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Maria Portokalos: Ian, are you hungry? Ian Miller: Uh no, I already ate. Maria Portokalos: Okay, I make you something.
(2 votes)
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Gus Portokalos: [describing Ian Miller] Exeno with big, long, hair on top of his head!
(2 votes)
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Toula Portokalos: Why?... Why do you love me? Ian Miller: Because I came alive when I met you
(2 votes)
23
Gus Portokalos: [crying] Why you want to leave me? Toula Portokalos: I'm not leaving you! Don't you want me to do something with my life? Gus Portokalos: Yes! Get married, make babies! You look so... old!
(2 votes)
24
Angelo: Hey Ian, we're gonna kill ya! Opah!
(2 votes)
25
[Ian reads the wedding invitation] Ian Miller: My parents' names are Rodney and Harriet. Toula Portokalos: [horrified] Rodney and HARRY! Nick Portokalos: We didn't notice, so maybe they won't.
(2 votes)
26
Ian Miller: May I please date your daughter? Gus Portokalos: NO!
(2 votes)
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Maria Portokalos: Nicko! Don't play with food! When I was your age, I didn't have food!
28
Toula 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?"
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Harriet Miller: How are we supposed to know what's going on? Rodney Miller: It's all Greek to me.
30
Toula 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.
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[Toula is wearing a fancy dress for a secret date with Ian] Gus Portokalos: Where are you going? Toula Portokalos: I'm taking a pottery class. Gus Portokalos: Ah! The Greeks invented pottery. Hmph.
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[repeated line] Gus Portokalos: Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek.
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[repeated line] [whenever anyone has an ailment] Gus Portokalos: Put some Windex on it.
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Maria Portokalos: We must let Kosta think this was his idea. Aunt Voula: Alright, I know. Maria Portokalos: That he came up with it. Aunt Voula: Alright. Toula Portokalos: Ma, he's gonna figure it out. Maria Portokalos: Don't you worry. Aunt Voula: Okay, I know what to do you. Maria Portokalos: You don't know what to do. You talk, talk, talk, all the time! Aunt Voula: Do you want my help? Maria Portokalos: Yes, I want your help! Aunt Voula: Tell me what to say. But don't tell me what to say. Maria Portokalos: Perfect!
35
[During Ian's baptism] Toula Portokalos: Any second now he's gonna look at me and say, "You're so not worth this."
36
Nikki: WHAT is going on? Mr. Pottery class... nice to meet ya.
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[seeing herself in her wedding gown for the first time] Toula Portokalos: I'm a snow beast!
38
Maria Portokalos: Where did you go? Nick Portokalos: Nowhere. Maria Portokalos: What did you do? Nick Portokalos: Nothing. Maria Portokalos: Who did you see? Nick Portokalos: No one.
39
Toula Portokalos: If nagging were an Olympic sport, my Aunt Voula would win a gold medal!
40
Nick 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.
41
Gus Portokalos: Oh, Mrs. White! You find my mama *again*! You know, she come from Greece. The country I come from too... Mrs. White: [interrupting] For Godsake, I know! Listen. Keep your mother off my lawn, out of my basement [screaming] Mrs. White: And away from my roof!
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Maria Portokalos: [angry] What is wrong with Toula going to school downtown? Gus Portokalos: It's drugs downtown! Maria Portokalos: What are you saying? Are you saying Toula will get involved with drugs? Gus Portokalos: No. But somebody will say to her: take this bag down to the bus depot, and she'll do it! Maria Portokalos: She is not stupid! She's smart! Gus Portokalos: I know she's smart. So what for she needs more school? She's smart enough for a girl. Maria Portokalos: [indignated] Oh! You think you're smarter than me, huh? Gus Portokalos: No, I... I mean... You... you know... Maria Portokalos: [angry] What? What you mean? I run the restaurant, I cook, I clean, I wash for you *and* I raise three kids *and* I teach Sunday school, you know? It's lucky for me I have you to tie my shoes! Gus Portokalos: Maria! [Maria leaves the room, slamming the door, and smiles at Toula]
43
Gus Portokalos: It is YOUR LUCKY DAY... to be baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church!
44
Yianni: Ian, if you're gonna be in this family, I get you some earplugs because the Portokalos women, if they're not nagging someone... THEY DIE! Toula Portokalos: Ah, you're in so much trouble when I tell my sister! Athena: Tell me what?
45
Aunt Voula: Toula. Toula! You're engaged. You're engaged-We never think this would happen for you. Never. *Never.* Taki, didn't we say that... Uncle Taki: We never think this day would come. Never
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[first lines] Gus Portokalos: [to Toula] You better get married soon. You're starting to look... old!
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[repeated line, in Greek] Yiayia: Bloodthirsty Turks!
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