Quotes By Mariska Hargitay

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?'

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

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

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

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.

My weekends are extremely precious.