Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.

We're all separate and individual people.

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

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 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.

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.