Chris Noth Quotations

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

Success can be obviously a two way street.

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.

Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you're going to get hurt then you shouldn't be there in the first place. That's the way I look at relationships.

Mr. Big has been sticking to me, and that makes me uncomfortable. I know it's meant well when people stop me in the street and say, 'Hey, Mr. Big!' But I don't ever want to be identified by any part I've played once it's over.

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.

From what I've heard about Israel and its sites, landscape, beaches and historical and religious heritage, it is a wonderful place to visit. I told my friends that I'm going to Israel because I'm a New Yorker, and a New Yorker goes to Israel.

'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.

Republicans will destroy the country... that comes from a Republican sensibility, which is to destroy the fabric of the psychological well being of most men. They have gotten too involved with making money. They do not understand the real values, the democratic values, of the emotions and the commitments that are the basic drives that nourish us. This is why you should not vote Republican.

I think (Mamet) seduces people in the first act into thinking that it's a comedy, in a sense, ... But then it turns around and becomes very dangerous. He's created a language here that appears to be natural but is much more heightened. It's realism in the best sense.

Maybe in 20 years, when Disney rots and looks like sort of a pornographic version,

Dick Wolf made me an offer I couldn't refuse,

Although Sex And The City was a great show and I loved that for what it was, the response to it became so much more than the show, ... That became, in a sense, annoying. So it was great to go back to something I knew, but I could explore more, recreate, bring more nuance.

It's not that I'm asking for that, and I don't know how to explain it. I just think there's room for the disenfranchised. I don't think we have to sweep it under the rug.

It's terrible. We're starting to look like Hong Kong, or Singapore at worst. Pretty soon you won't be able to throw a piece of gum on the street.

New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.

Cable has become something much bigger than expected, ... so that when a show like 'Law & Order' is seen three times a day, five days a week ... when you get that kind of exposure all the time and don't get paid anything, there's got to be something done.

Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?

No one ever takes my side.

It's over. The franchise is dead. The press killed it. Your magazine f**king killed it. New York Magazine. It's like all the critics got together and said, 'This franchise must die.' Because they all had the exact same review. It's like they didn't see the movie. Got any more gum?

At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

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.

I don't mind demanding women.

I don't think they should have thrown out the baby with the bath water,

I'd love to come back every summer and do a play here. It's a definite challenge - we had less than three weeks for rehearsal, so we came in running.

The city reflects the world of Sex And The City more than the old Law & Order,