Christopher Meloni

I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' ”

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

I like intellectual journeys. ”

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. ”

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 really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important. ”