Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

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

~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.~

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

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

I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

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

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.'

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

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

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

For the last ten years or more, I've really been making shopping decisions based on, "Is that what I want to wear forever?" I tend to not have these quick one - night stands or affairs with fashion, because it never suits me anyway. I tend to shop, specifically with heels or shoes, for things that I think, "Yeah, this is a long - term relationship.".

I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

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.

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.

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.

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

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