Sarah Jessica Parker famous quotes

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

#Sexy #Being Single #Mean

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

#Thoughtful #Years #Shoes

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

#People #Opinion #Instinct

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Thinking #You Think You Know

Balls are to men what purses are to women.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Men #Balls #Purses

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.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Looks #Hours #Worn

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Silly #Doors #People

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Squirrels #Rats

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

#Opportunity #Special #Events

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

#Jobs #Water #Actors

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Sex #Writing

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

#Forgiving #Forget

~As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.~
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Mother #Son #Parenting

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

#Inspirational #Girl #Believe

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Girl #Indulge

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

#New York #Gay #Men

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

#Shoes #Feet #Care

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

#Fashion #Men #Thinking

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

#Fall #People #Computer

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

#Love #Believe #Reviews

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

#Men #Sphinx #Riddle

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Men #Trying #Waste

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

#Missing You #Mistake #Fate

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

#Children #Perfection #Joy

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

#Jobs #Thinking #Nervous

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

#Opportunity #Challenges #Excellence

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

#Art #Childhood #Theatre

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

#Clothes #Bottles #Littles

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

#Thinking #Ideas #Two

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

#Children #Halloween #Garden

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

#Wind #People #Bars

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

#Giving Up #Past #Forever

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

#People #Curious

I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Honestly

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

#Mean #Cutting #Government

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

#Flower #Lapses #Looks

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

#Fun #Feel Better #People

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Easy #Spots

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

#Kissing #Men #Guy

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

#Thinking #Careers #Done

With each of the men I dated, everything ran its natural course, whether it worked out or not. I never felt burnt by any of them. I don't feel resentful. I don't want those years back. I'm not one of those women who thinks men are bastards. I love men: straight men, gay men. I've always had men close to me, from the time I was a child.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Children #Gay #Men

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

#Women #Successful #Good Friend

I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ***** 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

#Smart #Thinking #People

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

#Country #Couple #Mean

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

#Mean #Thinking #People

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

#Snow #Three

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

#Singing #Teeth #Annie

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

#Reading #Dining #Eating

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

#Helping #Speed #Destination

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

#Tired #Night #Flying

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.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#School #Kids #Cutting

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

#Nice #Hard Work #Shopping

Fashion is not a luxury, it's a right
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Fashion #Luxury

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

#Dirty #Thinking #Clothes

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

#Helping Others #Giving #Effort

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

#Size #Bigs #Closets

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

#Ideas #Actors #Well Known

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

#Responsibility #Want #Helpful

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

#Lovely #Jennifer

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

#Growing Up #Thinking #Big Families

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

#Shoes #Flattering

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.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Son #Likes #Incredibles

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

#Girl #Party #Home

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

#Couple #Self #Shelves

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

#Giving #Embarrassed

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

#I Love Him #America #Laughing