Mariska Hargitay Quotes

I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.

Mariska Hargitay

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• I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Internet

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fall

• One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Good
  • Man
  • Woman

• When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Me
  • Thought

• I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Day
  • Start
  • Television

• Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

  

  Rachel True
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Mythology

• I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Makeup
  • Bed
  • Teeth

• I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Fame

• The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

  

  Tablo
  • Like
  • Same
  • Saying

• I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Done
  • Think
  • Church

• I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

  

  Kanye West
  • Band
  • Always
  • British

• I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Name

• It seems Russians hacked into emails from both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee and then chose to release only the DNC emails. These attacks destabilize and undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process, and they must be addressed in a serious and proportional way - just as we would for a non-cyberattack.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • Serious
  • Confidence

• Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Self

• Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

  

  John Polkinghorne
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Universe

• I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

  

  Alain Macklovitch

• Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn't go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, "Oh, wow, it's a comic-book version of the Bible." There's a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn't make it into Sunday school.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • School
  • Book
  • Reading

• I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.

  

  Mariska Hargitay