Christopher Meloni Quotes

My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'

I always wanted to be an actor and started modelling for various commercials when I was 16 and when I was in Class XII, got 'Issaq' through auditioning.

Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.'' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.

I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

It's really good to be a working actor.

For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'

I'm always looking for work. There are only two states of being an actor, so if I'm not working, I'm looking for employment.

When you start as an actor, you can only hope you'll be able to act at all - let alone on a show that lasts seven seasons.

My first professional gig was on a show called 'Nikita,' and I played Al Qaeda No. 2. At that time I had to take those roles because I just wanted to get my foot in the door.

If you want to be an actor or actress out of high school or college, just know what you're getting in for. It's a job. If you look at it like a job, and you make it a career and a profession, then you're bound to do well.

Los Angeles is where I became an actor.

About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.

'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good.