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I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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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

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. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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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

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I don't get called very often to play innocents. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#big #big shot #coming #experience #faith

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'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

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