Top 15 Chris Noth Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

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

I don’t mind demanding women.

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 cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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