Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Sarah Jessica Parker
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home. — Sarah Jessica Parker
If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward. — Sarah Jessica Parker
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter ... — Sarah Jessica Parker
I never was Carrie Bradshaw, but imagine how great it was to be told, "You are obligated to kiss all these men, to dress like that, and to carry on like that!" They were great guys, too. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big! — Sarah Jessica Parker
I've always been an actor. That's my job - I can be anything you want me to be. — Sarah Jessica Parker
If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway — Sarah Jessica Parker
Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate? — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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 ... — Sarah Jessica Parker
I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes. And at the end of the bottle, when the atomizer no longer reaches the tiny little dribble that is left, I unscrew the top and pour the remainder onto a t-shirt or dress. — Sarah Jessica Parker
If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that I find more intimidating and far more painful an experience. It's the lack of critical thinking. It's the endless snarky, mean way we talk about each other, we approach each other. The anonymity of being cruel, the delight in tearing people down. The tabloid era that we find ourselves in is a cultural boneyard, and that is painful to me. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic. — Sarah Jessica Parker
What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution. — Sarah Jessica Parker
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf? — Sarah Jessica Parker
I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up. — Sarah Jessica Parker
My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything. — Sarah Jessica Parker
If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.' — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love? — Sarah Jessica Parker
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic? — Sarah Jessica Parker
Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful. — Sarah Jessica Parker
What you think you know versus what you actually learn. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father. — Sarah Jessica Parker
The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship? — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I feel funny saying this, I'm not really a shoe shopper. I'm not going to go out and buy hundreds of pairs of shoes. I'm much more thoughtful than [Carrie] is, which is also one of the treats of playing her all these years. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional? — Sarah Jessica Parker
It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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! — Sarah Jessica Parker
As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind. — Sarah Jessica Parker
When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past? — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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.' — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. — Sarah Jessica Parker
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx ... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed. — Sarah Jessica Parker
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. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff. — Sarah Jessica Parker