Chris Noth Quotes

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. No one ever takes my side.

6. 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.





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

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

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

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

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

12. Success can be obviously a two way street.

13. 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.





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

15. 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.

16. 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.


17. I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.

18. 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.

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

20. 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.

21. 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.





22. 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?

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

24. "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.

25. 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.

26. I don't mind demanding women.



27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.


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

31. 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.

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

33. 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.

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