Quotes By Mariska Hargitay

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

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

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!

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

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.

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

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 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.