Explore Quotes by Mariska Hargitay

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.

It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.

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.

I have everything I need. Our house is very joyful.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

When we're on the street and someone drops something, I pick it up.

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!

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

It's very difficult leaving the house anytime with my baby at home.

My heart just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

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

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