Top 35 Christopher Meloni Quotes

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The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium

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.
Christopher Meloni
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
Christopher Meloni
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn’t really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
Christopher Meloni
But I came from a conservative Republican background.
Christopher Meloni
My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
Christopher Meloni
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
Christopher Meloni
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.
Christopher Meloni
You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.
Christopher Meloni
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.
Christopher Meloni
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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I don’t get called very often to play innocents.
Christopher Meloni
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
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.
Christopher Meloni
I rarely see one of the ‘summer blockbuster’ movies. I’d like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
Christopher Meloni
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.
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I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can’t help but grow. That’s not to say you don’t make mistakes or make bad choices, but that’s part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.
Christopher Meloni
I’ve written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.
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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.
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I’m a nudist at heart.
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I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
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I’ve got the best of all worlds. It’s every actor’s dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
Christopher Meloni
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
Christopher Meloni
I love to act. I need to act. It’s the big itch I need to scratch.
Christopher Meloni
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, ‘Am I having fun?’
Christopher Meloni
I never find sincerity offensive… so, be sincere.
Christopher Meloni
I like intellectual journeys.
Christopher Meloni
I’m so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.
Christopher Meloni
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
I love my children beyond all reason. They’re my joy, even when they’re wild with kid energy.
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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.
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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.
Christopher Meloni
I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality

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