Christopher Meloni Quotes

Tv's Hard Work. I Don't Know How The Hell Angela Lansbury Survived Doing 'murder, She Wrote' All Those Years.

I Had Great Faith In Irish Actors, That They'd Be Hip To The Whole Theatre Thing, And They Are. I Had No Illusions Of Coming Over Here As Some Kind Of Big Shot. It's Been A Learning Experience For Me Too.

I've Written A Couple Screenplays And Half-finished Plays.

People Don't Know Where To Place Me. Terry Gilliam Used Me As A Quirky Cop In 'twelve Monkeys', And Then He Hired Me Again To Be An Effeminate Hotel Clerk In 'fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'. Another Time, I Was Shooting This Indie Film 'the Souler Opposite' And Six Days A Week, I'm Playing This Big Puppy Dog, Then I Come To The 'nypd Blue' Set And Become This Scumbag.

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.

The Reason Why I Hate Working In Theatre Is The Tedium Of Memorisation. But Once That Is Done, Then You Feast On This Never-ending Meal. If You Play It Correctly, Every Night Is Fraught With Very High Stakes That Are Very Difficult To Find In Everyday Life.

I Rarely See One Of The 'summer Blockbuster' Movies. I'd Like To See A Stronger Focus On Smaller, Smarter Movies.

I Think To Be A Successful Comic, You Have To Be Exceptionally Smart And Exceptionally Perceptive.

How That Works Is Our First Season Was The Year We Had A Threatened Writers' Strike, So What We Did Was That Instead Of Doing 22 Episodes, We Did 30. We Put 10 In The Bank.

De Niro Was A Hero Of Mine. And Sean Penn. But I've Realized I Can't Operate At That Level Of Intensity. That's Okay For Movies. On Tv, When You Live With Horror Day In And Day Out, You Have To Protect Yourself.

Crime Is One Of The Leads Of The Show. If There's Ever Anything That Deals With A Character's Personal Life, You Don't Have To Worry About It Getting Too Crazy. People Don't Have To Worry About Character Arcs. Each Episode Is A Self-contained Unit.

I'd Have To Say Bali's My Favorite Place That I've Visited.