Christopher Meloni Quotes

• It is a weird feeling to have people go, “Hey Chris” like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn’t be nicer and more positive.

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• It ain’t easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you’re capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

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

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

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• If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

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• If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it’d be a perfect world.

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• I’ve written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

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• I’ve got the best of all worlds. It’s every actor’s dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.

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• I’m so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I’m a nudist at heart.

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• I’d like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

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• I’d have to say Bali’s my favorite place that I’ve visited.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I still have a dream of one day – I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house – him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that.

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Christopher Meloni (60)

Birth:	2nd April, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Christopher Peter Meloni was born in  Washington, D.C., USA. He is an American actor. He studied acting at the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated with a degree in history in 1983. His first noticeable role was as the hotheaded son of a Mafia Don in the 1996 thriller Bound. He is best known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz. His most well known films are Man of Steel, Wet Hot American Summer, 12 Monkeys, Runaway Bride and 42.

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