Top 91 Quotes About Hargitay
#1. I've always been a big fan of 'Law & Order: SVU.' I think Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni are just incredible.
Reid Scott
#2. I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate.
Spencer Grammer
#4. People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that's what I admire most.
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#5. When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
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#6. Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.
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#8. If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.
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#9. Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.
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#10. A guy at ABC told me to change my name and get a nose job. I said 'You get a nose job.'
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#11. Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.
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#12. My Dad taught me that good health is all about living in gratitude.
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#13. You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.
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#14. I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.
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#15. Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.
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#16. Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.
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#17. When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
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#18. It's very difficult leaving the house anytime with my baby at home.
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#19. I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show
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#20. I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.
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#21. No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.
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#23. When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.
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#24. The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.
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#25. I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.
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#27. You survived the abuse, you're going to survive the recovery.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.
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#30. Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance ... of becoming alcoholics.
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#31. I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.
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#32. Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.
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#34. But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.
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#35. There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.
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#36. You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.
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#37. I definitely have my days where I look like I got dressed in the dark.
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#38. Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.
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#39. We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.
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#40. Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today; I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.
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#41. Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.
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#42. I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like How are we going to get through this?
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#43. 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!
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#44. It wasn't really that hard to act when you see somebody holding a gun to your partner. It's also believing the circumstances and I believed it.
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#45. Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.
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#46. Being sexy is just one part of being a woman and an actress. But if the part calls for sexy ...
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#47. By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.
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#50. Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.
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#52. I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such an idiot.' I don't say things like that anymore. Those put-downs, even if they're in jest, are little bullets of negativity that you don't need in your life.
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#53. 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.
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#54. I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.
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#55. Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.
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#59. It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.
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#60. I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.
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#61. 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.
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#62. When we're on the street and someone drops something, I pick it up.
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#63. As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
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#64. I wasn't at all trying to be skinny, My Mom is Jayne Mansfield, I'm allowed to have curves.
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#65. 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.
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#66. The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.
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#67. You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.
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#68. Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
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#69. If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.
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#70. You should've seen my big hair in the 80's, that was a real project.
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#71. Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.
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#72. These days we don't have to fit into something other people think we are. We've leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I'm a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle - we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.
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#75. 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?'
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#78. To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.
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#79. They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.
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#81. It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
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#83. Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.
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#84. Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.
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#85. Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It's a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.
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#86. I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'
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#87. I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.
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#88. 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.
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#90. I'm just grateful that my body is healthy. I want to be on this planet for a long time, so I try to eat things that make me feel good and make me strong. But I also love food and I love life: Some days having that extra bowl of pasta and a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup means more to me than being thin.
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#91. In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.
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