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.

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.

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.

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 was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

You can never discard too many bad ideas.

[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.

I'm actually very spiritual.