Mariska Hargitay Quotes
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.
No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.
If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.
People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.
Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.
Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.
Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.
I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.
Being sexy is just one part of being a woman and an actress. But if the part calls for sexy...
In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
A guy at ABC told me to change my name and get a nose job. I said 'You get a nose job.'
By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.
Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.
We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.
I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!
There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.
You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.
I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.
I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.
If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.
I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.
When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.
I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.
I wasn't at all trying to be skinny, My Mom is Jayne Mansfield, I'm allowed to have curves.
