Christopher Meloni Quotes

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
Christopher Meloni

Work, Good, Job

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

Love, Children, Joy

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

Fun, Yourself, Child

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.
Christopher Meloni

Good, Diet, Hate

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

Find, Sincerity, Sincere

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

Dad, Mother, Children

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
Christopher Meloni

Great, Experience, Learning

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
Christopher Meloni

Great, Thought, Why

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

Dad, Share, Finding

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.
Christopher Meloni

Time, Fear, Become

I'm a nudist at heart.
Christopher Meloni

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.
Christopher Meloni

Nice, Actor, Virtue

But I came from a conservative Republican background.
Christopher Meloni

Republican, Background

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.
Christopher Meloni

Best, Cool, Blessed

Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
Christopher Meloni

Life, Crazy, Character

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
Christopher Meloni

Movies, Yourself, Live

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.
Christopher Meloni

Put, Year, Works

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
Christopher Meloni

Acting, Service, Matter

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

Play, Often, Innocents

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
Christopher Meloni

Faith, Great, Experience

I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything.
Christopher Meloni

Money, Done, Made

I like intellectual journeys.
Christopher Meloni

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

Love, Feeling, Spring

I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle.
Christopher Meloni

Love, End, Different

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 2, 1961

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