Christopher Meloni Quotes

• You couldn’t pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people’s problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

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

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

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• You can be childlike without being childish.

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• Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

  Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?

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• When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like ‘Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle’ where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.

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• We’re real fortunate to have such a unique cast.

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• 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.

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• TV’s hard work. I don’t know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing ‘Murder, She Wrote’ all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney – they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

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• 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.

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• There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could.

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• The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can’t wait to get to work in the morning. I’ve got steady jobs, I’ve got my health, and I’m here in the greatest city in the world. I’d be a pig not to be grateful.

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• It’s just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it’s not a big deal. I don’t put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don’t put it in the ‘important’ box.

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• It’s great to be recognized when I’m looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don’t put it to best use. I’m such a lump. I won’t cut the line. It’s my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

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• 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.

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Christopher Meloni (60)

Birth:	2nd April, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Christopher Peter Meloni was born in  Washington, D.C., USA. He is an American actor. He studied acting at the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated with a degree in history in 1983. His first noticeable role was as the hotheaded son of a Mafia Don in the 1996 thriller Bound. He is best known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz. His most well known films are Man of Steel, Wet Hot American Summer, 12 Monkeys, Runaway Bride and 42.

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