Sarah Jessica Parker Quotations

We didn't have a lot when I was growing up, and it's the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. I am so desperately worried about anybody saying, "She cut in line," or "She took our table," or "She doesn't do her own grocery shopping." It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

I love Matthew Broderick. Call me crazy, but I love him. We can only be in the marriage we are. We're very devoted to our family and our lives. I love our life. I love that he's the father of my children, and it's because of him that there's this whole other world that I love.

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.

People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be heard. There were eight children!

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

Fashion is not a luxury, it's a right

I've never done nudity in my whole career. I certainly don't think now is the time to start. I don't think it's necessary for anything I've done, although I have absolutely no opinions against anyone who feels comfortable doing it.

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no nudity and no body doubles... I admire actresses who can do it without feeling exploited. As long as it's their own free will, I think it's great. It's not a moral judgement, I've just never felt comfortable doing it - I'm too modest.

Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, 'Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'

When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.

Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?

I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things...I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.

The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.

Do we need distance to get close?

Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.

Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.

I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don't shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work.

I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm liked a baked good. Love it.

I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement -- they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah ...

You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only -- the sole sort of gatekeeper of marriage should also support people staying together. I mean, a lot of heterosexual couples don't stay together, and I think that's as upsetting as two people who are really committed and loving and have been monogamous for many years wanting to ... be married and have -- share some of the same rights that this country is so uniquely qualified to give people.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.