Mariska Hargitay Quotes

• Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

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• Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

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• Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

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• I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

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• You’ve got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

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• My weekends are extremely precious.

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• I say to everybody, ‘Adoption is not for the faint of heart.’

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• Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

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• I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

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• You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

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• You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

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• Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn’t. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

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• When you see a girl like me bustin’ perps, there ain’t no time to be pretty.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• 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.

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• It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

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• I’m living every ten-year-old boy’s fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, ‘Here we are in New York City – a place where every actor wants to be – and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?’

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• I’m an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

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• I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you’re not what I expected.

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Mariska Hargitay (44)

Birth:	23rd January, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Producer

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