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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" No one ever takes my side. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "