Christopher Meloni Quotes
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
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Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.
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Let's have a day in the life of Gerard." Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.