#ect

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

#de niro #hero #horror #i #intensity

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. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#advocate #announcer #been #certain #certain ways

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

#definitely #expectations #experience #fatherhood #glad

I like intellectual journeys. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#intellectual #journeys #like

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. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#because #different #different players #doing #each

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#chris #chris rock #example #funny #gap

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. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#aspects #behavior #bring #dark #extreme

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

#difficult #done #every #every night #everyday

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#due #freaks #i #interviewed #leery

Art is the objectification of feeling. ↗

— Herman Melville

#feeling #objectification