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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Success can be obviously a two way street.