Chris Noth Quotes
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 jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.
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 always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.
I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.
At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.
As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.
I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.
You look around New York, and we are surrounded by restaurants and food trucks, and we celebrate food in this city like no tomorrow.
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.
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.
