Nia Vardalos
Related ANONYMOUS GEORGE BURNS I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. IAN GOMEZ GINNIFER GOODWIN I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I we... CARLENE CARTER I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and... RON SANTO He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the bl... JOHN LEGUIZAMO When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my bod... ALEXANDRE PATO NICOLAS CAGE DAVID THEWLIS Of course it went through my head that we needed both of them. I went up there and envisioned that i... KYLE MEULI I went in for a checkup, and when my doctor had me stand on the scale, even he was surprised. Seeing... ADAM RICHMAN I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and ... JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my... DORIS EATON TRAVIS Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pas... LISA BONET My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count... SHERYL LEE After I played my first round, I went to see the doctor and he turned around and said that he needed... DAVID LYNN ALANA STEWART JO NESBO DIANE KRUGER We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. NICHOLAS LEA KEVIN KWAN RICHARD DAWKINS It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u... JACK STRAW LARRY THE CABLE GUY I went to see the doctor after the game and he said it was nothing major. But I woke up Sunday feeli... CARLOS BELTRAN When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence... BOW WOW I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has ... ERIK HASSLE When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doc... OTTO PREMINGER STEVEN SPIELBERG I knew I was getting close to the end. I was losing my vision. My feet and legs were swollen. ... Th... ZEKE SMITH BOBBY CLARKE SELENA GOMEZ DOUG FLUTIE My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl... PHILIP TREACY CHANDLER RIGGS I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I w... IAN GOMEZ I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ... KIM DICKENS When I was out there in the sixth, my hands and my fingers started cramping up, ... The same thing h... CHRIS CARPENTER I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way tha... PATTY GRIFFIN LINDSEY STIRLING BILL HADER Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was wri... TYKA NELSON FRANK OCEAN The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g... ADEPERO ODUYE I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Re... MAGGIE LAWSON My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was ... CORBIN BERNSEN My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We'd share stories of making out with... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN The entire family went through therapy, me last, finally at my wife's urging that I was in such bad ... GARY REQUA I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting... IKE BARINHOLTZ YOUNG THUG CHERRY JONES TAMMY FAYE BAKKER STEVE HARVEY There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN KIRK DOUGLAS Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then f... REBECCA FERGUSON GUY FIERI I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a perform... CHRISTIAN COOKE DAVID NICHOLLS I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.... IAN MACKAYE I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep mudd... NORMAN REEDUS It went up like a Christmas tree. I was trying to put it out with a bottle of water. I turned around... JACK RUSSELL As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called '... PETER MORGAN I want him to wake up every day and see my face and hear my voice and see my son's picture every day... JOANNE SANABRIA SURESH RAINA CASEY WILSON KELLAN LUTZ CAMILA ALVES TERRY GILLIAM JERRY REINSDORF I went to London and was excited to make the team, but to be honest, I was a bit dissatisfied with m... ELOISE WELLINGS My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I wen... DON KING ETHEL KENNEDY MARYJANICE DAVIDSON LENNY KRAVITZ I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my ... MIKE ROWE My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS KELSEA BALLERINI BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TREY PARKER ZENDAYA KATHERINE DUNHAM I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', ... MAMIE GUMMER KYLIE JENNER LOUIS MACNEICE WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN RITA ORA PETER CAPALDI ACTION BRONSON CHRISTY TURLINGTON Out of high school, I was, like, 202-205 pounds. My rookie season, I was, like, 245; my second year,... VON MILLER PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g... SIMON COWELL There was no way I could let Mark Martin get outside of me on that restart. My truck was so loose wh... TODD BODINE I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I w... NEYMAR It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake u... BECKY LYNCH SANDRA OH My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States s... HERMANN EILTS
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