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

No one ever takes my side.

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

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.

I have enough attention already. More, I don`t really need.

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.

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

I don`t mind demanding women.

I don`t do a hell of a lot of publicity. I find it nauseous. I feel like a blithering idiot and your friends are laughing at you.

I don`t like "NYPD Blue" (1993) because it tries to pretend it`s a New York show. You know it`s shot in a Hollywood back-lot. It`s so L.A., so un-New York....They all try to talk New York. They all sound stupid. "Law & Order" (1990) is one hundred times more authentic.

[On why he left "Law & Order" (1990)]: "`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. But you need a job, and I felt awfully blessed to be in New York City and to be doing a show that was considered intelligent in the world of TV. But hey, five years is enough time."

I have been walking these [New York] streets and taking subways all of my adult life, and before I was just another face in the crowd. It`s pretty annoying to be suddenly looked at as some exotic bird in the zoo.

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.