Christopher Meloni Quotes

I'd have to say Bali's my favorite place that I've visited.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

I'm a nudist at heart.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

You can be childlike without being childish.

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that

If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years.

It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.

Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

I like intellectual journeys.

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.