No one ever takes my side.

No one ever takes my side.

I don't mind demanding women.

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

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 have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

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

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.

'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.

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.

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 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.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

Look, I'm a huge supporter of Obama's - he's the first president I ever donated money to. But I think in terms of climate change and the environment, he's been, at best, disappointing.

Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.

Success can be obviously a two way street.

We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It's a horrifying one-two punch.

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

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.

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

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.

I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight.

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

Fashion is all about references. All these names being thrown around.

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Education is not so important as people think.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.