A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Saying good-bye on 'Nurse Jackie' was a really big deal, so I'm sure I was keeping myself guarded from ever having to feel anything like that again on another job, especially a death scene.

I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.