Mariska Hargitay

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.