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Dont let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become. Nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life. Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day we die.My dad believed in only two things.that Greeks should educate non-Greeks about being Greek. and that any ailment, from psoriasis to poison ivy, could be cured with Windex.When I was growing up, I knew I was different. The other girls were blond and delicate. And I was a swarthy 6-year-old with sideburns. I so badly wanted to be like the popular girls. all sitting together, talking. eating their Wonder Bread sandwiches.And while the pretty girls got to go to Brownies. I had to go to Greek school. At Greek school, I learned valuable lessons like. If Nick has one goat and Maria has nine, how soon will they marry?Nice Greek girls who dont 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.I wish I had a different life. I wish I was braver and prettier.or just happy. But its useless to dream, because nothing ever changes.Mike: All right, lets go.Ian: What do you mean? I just got here.|Mike: I got a class. Come on. Giving a pop quiz, and I cant wait to hear the groans.Ian: Man, youre tough. Im giving a test on Hamlet, but I give fair warning.Toula: Dad is so stubborn. What he says goes. The man is the head of the house.Maria: 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.Ian: And then, whoosh, you were gone. I thought youd fainted.Toula: I was swept off of my feet by your very cool opening line of hi.Ian: What do you do for Christmas with your family?Toula: My mom makes roast lamb.Ian:-With mint jelly?|Toula:-No.Ian:And?Toula: And.Im Greek, right? (Right.) So what happens is my dad and my uncles fight over who gets to eat the lamb brain. And them my Aunt Voula forks the eyeball, and chases me around trying to make me eat it because itll make me smart. You have two cousins. I have 27 first cousins. Just 27 first cousins, alone. And my whole family is big and loud. and everybodys always in each others lives and business. You never have a minute alone to just think, because were always together eating. The only other people we know are Greeks because Greeks marry Greeks, to breed more Greeks. to be loud, breeding, Greek eaters. (Wow.)Im serious. No one in my family has ever gone out with a non-Greek before. No one. And youre. Youre. God, youre just, you know, wonderful. But I just dont see how this is going to work out.Maria: Whered you go?|Niko: Nowhere.Maria: What did you do?|Niko: Nothing.Maria: Who did you see?|Niko: No one.Last night, Vicki Pavalopolis saw you sucking the lips off his head, in the Dennys parking lot. She told her ma, who told my ma, who told your ma. Let me put it this way. Youre busted.Maria: Kosta. they love each other. Its done.Kosta: How? How can she do this to me?Maria: She didnt do this to you or to me. They fell in love. It happens.Kosta: Is he a good boy? I dont know. Is he from a good family? I dont know. Is he respectful? I dont know. because nobody talks to me about nothing no more. A respectful boy would come here and ask for my permission. My daughter engaged to a xeno. I always think shes going to be married in the Greek Orthodox Church. Why is she doing this to me?Toula: when Im with you. I am so happy. but my family is so unhappy. And our wedding should be this joyous thing. But it wont be for them, because it cant be in our church. So, lets just go somewhere. Please, lets just go.Ian: Hey, I love you.Toula: Why? Why do you love me?Ian: Because I came alive when I met you.Toula: But my family.Ian: Youre a part of your family. and Ill do anything. whatever it takes, to get them to accept me. Because youre my whole life now. Were not going to skulk off and get married. as if were ashamed of ourselves. Okay?Toula: Okay.Niko: Its not so bad?Toula: Are you kidding? Any minute now, hes going to look at me and go: Right, youre so not worth this.Niko: Yes, you are.Ian, if youre going to be in this family, Ill get you some earplugs. because the Portokalos women, if theyre not nagging somebody, they die!Niko: Yeah, you started it. You wanted to do something else. and you did it. Hey, Toula. dont let your past dictate who you are. but let it be part of who you will become.Toula: Nick, that is so beautiful.Niko: Yeah. That Dear Abby, she really knows what shes talking about.Kosta: I tried. You tried. We all nice to them, you see it. And they look at us like were from the zoo. This no work, Maria. They different people. So dry. That family is like a piece of toast. No honey, no jam, just dry. My daughter. gonna marry Ian Miller. A xeno with a toast family. I never think this can happen to us. I try to put little marmalade. Oh, no, they dont like. They like themselves, all dry and cracking.Ian: And in Toulas church. the best man is actually part of the ceremony. Hes got to be Greek Orthodox, so. I cant ask you to be my best man, although, technically, you are.Mike: You were gonna ask me to be your best man?Ian: Yeah.Mike: I am touched. I had no idea you had so few friends. Thats okay. Just get me a little badge that says best man or something like that. No offence, but this girls familys got you by the short ones. They say jump,” and you pull out the trampoline.Ian: Yeah.Mike: Okay.Mike: My life is shit.Ian: Toulas got a lot of cousins. Fix you up.Mike: Yeah, thats gonna happen.Toula: Is my marriage killing Dad?Maria: Toula, your father is your father. He just wants you to be happy. Toula: But I am happy.Maria: Listen to me. My village saw many wars. Turkish, German. they all made a mess. And my mother, she said: Were lucky to be alive. And I thought, Were not lucky to be alive. Were not lucky, when they are telling us. where we should live, what we should eat. Nobody has that right. And then, I see you. And I see Athena and Niko. We came here for you. So you could live. I gave you life, so that you could live it.Maria: Listen, 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.Kosta: Hello. Welcome to the Portokalos family. And welcome the Miller family. I was thinking, last night. the night before. my daughter was
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