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

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.

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.

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Success can be obviously a two way street.

My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

All paths do not lead to truth. There is no path to truth, it must come to you.

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.