The lines are the last thing I have to worry about. When we film those scenes, we go through several rooms at once, without the camera stopping.

My character is not a surgeon, thank God. I would fall apart if I had to sit and watch someone being cut open to prepare for the role.

There`s only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that`s about New York policemen.

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I`m making a ton of money, and I`m walking around my apartment with flashlights.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I`d sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn`t afford to leave.

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I`m pretty safe.

I`m incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York.

You can`t mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.

I`m from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

I don`t get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

Physics has the cutest words.

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone`s priorities. It`s like you`re dissing them.

I`m a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

They understood why I left ER. It wasn`t just about a guy.

I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday.

I played the best role I`ve ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

"I was really wild back then [in high school], and theater just allowed me to sing, dance, jump and run around the stage playing all kinds of characters. It was like playtime. You were creating something, and there was a result that other people could enjoy."