You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.

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.

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.

Don't be afraid to study hard: knowledge never exhausts the mind.

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

I raised four kids in six years.

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.