I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.

As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.

Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.

I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.

Success can be obviously a two way street.

I don't mind demanding women.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility, money talks, bullshit walks, I guess.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Never allow your life to be dictated by what you can see by sight, be guided by your inner vision.

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories.

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.

I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.