Success can be obviously a two way street.

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.

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

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.

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 a Christmas miracle. I had no tree. Now I have a forest.

An uneasy past often builds the strongest and finest people.

It’s not the quality of the answers that changes our lives, it’s the quality of the question

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.

I'm 74 but I feel like I'm 35. And it isn't work. You know what it is? It's fun, absolute fun. I don't know many people who are fortunate enough to be in a business like that.

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about anything at any given moment. When you feel like you've arrived somewhere, that's the real problem.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.