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

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?

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

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.

The only approval you need in life, is that of your positive inner-self.

I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!