Words matter. These are the best Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 developed a really strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for granted.
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.
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.
If I didn’t have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
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.
My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.
So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.
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.
I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don’t know why. I just get embarrassed.
If you have a child, you’re improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.
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.
Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
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’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.
A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!
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.
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.
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.
When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
What I’ve learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
I’m less Pollyanna now. That’s probably healthy.
Do we need distance to get close?
It’s like the riddle of the Sphinx… why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
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.
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!
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
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.
Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.
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.
I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.
