Mariska Hargitay Quotes

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

Mariska Hargitay

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• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Light
  • Like
  • Spiritual

• If I don't create, I don't exist.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Create
  • Exist

• I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Art
  • Thought
  • Just

• So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Way
  • Interesting
  • Story

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Father
  • Parent

• Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • God
  • Think
  • Name

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Man
  • Individual
  • Become

• Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

  

  Iman
  • Alien
  • Multicultural

• World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Business

• Buildings are forms of performances.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Buildings
  • Forms

• I think 'Rheingold' has symbolic meaning of what happens in the world when you're running after the Rhine gold, after the gold. It doesn't end very well. It's kind of a reminder of the values of life, and I think 'The Ring,' in a way, is kind of a prediction of Wagner of what would happen in the world.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Life
  • World
  • Running

• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Chance

• I read about two young ladies that went to Parsons, and when they graduated Elizabeth Taylor opened a store for them in Paris and I thought okay-that's all I have to do!

  

  Anna Sui
  • Paris

• Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Humanity
  • Child
  • Human Cloning

• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Walking

• Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing