Christopher Meloni

“If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.”

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

“The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.”

“There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could.”

“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.”

“I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.”

“You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.”

“I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle.”

“I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.”

“In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.”

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

“I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.”

“I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.”

“It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.”

“I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.”