Jessica Parker Quotes

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

Seriously, Jack, I think you might be the only guy in this city who hasn't read his stuff. Collin McCann is like the Carrie Bradshaw of Chicago men."
"You mean Terry Bradshaw," Jack corrected.
"No, Carrie," Wilkins repeated. "You know, Sarah Jessica Parker. Sex and the City."
A silence fell over the room as Collin and Jack stared at Wilkins, seriously fearing for the fate of men. ~ Julie James

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

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

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

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love. ~ 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 love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on. ~ 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

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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. ~ 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

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes. ~ Philip Treacy

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'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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

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. ~ 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

Can you really forgive if you can't forget? ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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

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

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

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

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. ~ 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

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

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf? ~ 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 eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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. ~ 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

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

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

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

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

Balls are to men what purses are to women. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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

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. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff. ~ Amanda Peet

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

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men. ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play and it came out really quickly. Eventually I got it, and I wrote a letter to Sarah Jessica Parker and she wanted to do it. So that's how it happened. ~ Amanda Peet

Jessica Parker. You posses an exceptional gift of leadership. We honor your unwavering determination and your steadfast loyalty. You are a champion of justice and a true visionary guardian of the world. ~ Kay Cassidy

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

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

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

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit! ~ 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

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

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate? ~ Sarah Jessica Parker

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. ~ 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

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

When the Universe folds into a sigh,
Withdrawing from all agony and grief,
Time will cease its flowing, and with relief
The cosmic Breath will freeze and Time will die.
Evil souls that once were us arise
To devour the corpse, like clouds of flies. ~ Jessica Amanda Salmonson

His voice was terrifying and seemed to scrape across my skin as if it were a tangible thing. Something inside me agreed, as if it were even possible to give something like that. I didn't even really believe in a soul, but in that moment I could feel it writhing inside me. ~ Jessica Marie Gilliland

Everyone has a destiny, Gemma, my moms voice fills my thoughts. Yours is just more important. I always knew it would be, since the day you were born. She smiles brightly. My violet-eyed girl. Youre going to do great things, but itll be hard. Youll be tested, more than you already have. But no matter what, you can never lose yourself. You have to fight, no matter what, Gemma. Never, ever give up. ~ Jessica Sorensen

Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life. ~ Elizabeth Parker

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way. ~ Donald E. Westlake

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on. ~ Jessica Livingston

Connie posed no kind of threat to somebody as well rounded as Jessica. Connie had no notion of wholeness - was all depth and no breadth. When she was coloring, she got lost in saturating one or two areas with a felt-tip pen, leaving the rest blank and ignoring Patty's cheerful urgings to try some other colors. ~ Jonathan Franzen

I feel a normal temperature,' I reply, slightly ~ Jessica Brody

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. ~ Evan Parker

Some people never changed, could always be depended on to be exactly the way they should. ~ Jessica Khoury

His brow furrowed. "It's beautiful ... and awful, too. What is it?"
"It's me ~ Jessica Shirvington

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time. ~ Ed Parker

Passion is no ordinary word ~ Graham Parker

The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may well put lives in peril, your own and some of those around you. 'Faking it' in the service of high values is no virtue and has nothing to do with vocation. It is an ignorant, sometimes arrogant, attempt to override one's nature, and it will always fail. ~ Parker J. Palmer

I swear love is the most powerful emotion thats ever existed. It owns people, devours them, tears them open and bleeds them out from the inside, making them defenseless to everything. Hate is the same way. Hate takes your levelheadedness and even your sanity away from you. ~ Jessica Sorensen

I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society. ~ Jessica Anthony

One lone bubble floated toward her. In its curves, she saw the reflection of every color around her, a circular prism. She was that bubble. Tossed by the win in every direction. Reflecting all the people around her, all the things happening to her. All but herself. ~ Jessica Shook

A lot of people who wanted to audition for 'Idol' have asked me: "What should I do?" or "How to I prepare myself?" I always told them: "Just go in and believe in yourself." ~ Jessica Sanchez