I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

Negative thoughts crashed the spirit, weaken the soul and make the body sick.

Beware of unfriendly friends who come nicely dressed in friendly suits.

One is not required to like a movie in order to learn from it. Our personal views provide a legitimate perspective, as long as we recognize and acknowledge how they may color our interpretation.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.