Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.

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

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.

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

I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.

I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway

If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.

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.

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

When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after 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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

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.

You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.

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

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.

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.

Matthew and I used to read Dickens together. Oh my god, it was so great. We would sit in the bathtub and pass the book back and forth reading passages out loud.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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?

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.

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?'.

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

I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything.

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.

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.

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

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

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.'

You can't stop being who you are because you're afraid.

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.

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.

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

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

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 ...

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

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

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