Greece quotes

“The greeks invented italian.”
Michael Constantine - Gus

“- Hutch Bessy: Cacopoulos. What kind of a name is that?
- Cacopoulos: A Greek name. My grandfather was a Greek. He was a Greek, like Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Homer. And like Ulysses, he had to keep traveling. He never suffered from homesickness, my grandfather.”
Bud Spencer - Hutch Bessy
Eli Wallach - Cacopoulos

“- Gus: Now, give me a word, any word; and I will show you how the root of that word is greek.
- Costa: Uuuuh, facebook.
- Gus: Huh, the greeks invented facebook. We called it the telephone.”
Michael Constantine - Gus
Michael Sofos - Costa

“We honeymooned in Greece. The Parthenon had stood for 2,400 years. Reggie's promise to go straight lasted two weeks.”
Emily Browning - Frances Shea

- 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.
Lainie Kazan - Maria Portokalos
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“- Mrs. White: Did you lose this?
- Gus Portokalos: Mrs. White, you find my mama again! You know, she come from Greece, which is where I come....
- Mrs. White: Oh, for God's sake I know, look, keep your mother off my lawn, out of my basement, and away from my roof!”
Jayne Eastwood - Mrs. White
Michael Constantine - Gus Portokalos

“- Nicholas Petraki: What do you say to two handsome Greek partners?
- Lara Croft: Well, when you find two, let me know!”
Daniel Caltagirone - Nicholas Petraki
Angelina Jolie - Lara Croft

“- Toula Portokalos: Ma?
- Maria Portokalos: What?
- Toula Portokalos: Why do I have to go to Greek school?
- Maria Portokalos: When you get married, don't you wanna write your mother in law a letter?”
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos
Lainie Kazan - Maria 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...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“- Nick Acropolis: Rose! Rose, I am trying again. Will you please accept these flowers?
- Rose Muldoon: I don't want them. And I don't date Greeks.
- Nick Acropolis: You know, you and I could make each other so happy. Greek men are great lovers.
- Rose Muldoon: And Greek men never bathe.”
Anthony Quinn - Nick Acropolis
Maureen O'Hara - Rose Muldoon

“The first and perhaps only great mayor was Greek. He was Pericles of Athens, and he lived some 2500 years ago, and he said all things good of this Earth flow into the city because of the city's greatness. Well, we were great once. Can we not be great again?”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“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.”
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“- Gus Portokalos: Where are you going?
- Toula Portokalos: I'm taking a pottery class.
- Gus Portokalos: Ah! The Greeks invented pottery. Hmph.”

Michael Constantine - Gus Portokalos
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“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.”
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“- Sgt. Major Dickerson: This is not military issue, airman. What sort of uniform is that?
- Adrian Cronauer: Cretan camouflage sir. If you want to blend in with a bunch of drunken Greeks there's nothing better.”
J. T. Walsh - Sgt. Major Dickerson
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“There are two kinds of people - Greeks, and everyone else who wish they were Greek.”
Michael Constantine - Gus Portokalos

“- Alvin Seville: I love Athens! The nightlife, the girls, the excitement!
- Simon Seville: Alvin, you've never been to Athens.
- Alvin Seville: Well, it looks like a city I would love.”
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. - Alvin Seville
Ross Bagdasarian Jr. - Simon Seville

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?"
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“- Lara Croft: Reiss is going to use the orb to find Pandora's box.
- MI6 Agent Stevens: Do you meen the Greek myth? Pandora's given a box by a God, told not to open it, she does and unleashes pain into the world?”
Angelina Jolie - Lara Croft
Robert Cavanah - MI6 Agent Stevens

You know, the root of the word Miller is a Greek word. Miller come from the Greek word "milo," which is mean "apple," so there you go. As many of you know, our name, Portokalos, is come from the Greek word "portokali," which mean "orange." So, okay? Here tonight, we have, ah, apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit.
Michael Constantine - Gus 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.”
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“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.”
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“- Rusty James: I saw that chick, Cassandra. She said she wasn't hooked.
- The Motorcycle Boy: Yeah? I believe her. You remember what happened to the people who didn't believe Cassandra?
- Father: The Greeks got 'em.
- Rusty James: What?
- Father: The Greeks Got-'Em.
- Rusty James: Man, what the fuck do the Greeks have to do with anything?”
Matt Dillon - Rusty James
Mickey Rourke - The Motorcycle Boy
Dennis Hopper - Father