Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Squirrel, Rat, Just, Outfit

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Squirrel, Rat, Just, Outfit

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

Feel, Tell, Fun Thing, Married Life

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Love, Why, Worst, Reviews

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Think, Here, Still, Funniest

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.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Rest, Give, Will, Premises

We didn't have a lot when I was growing up, and it's the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Work, Strong, Best, Ethic

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

Love, Week, BBC, Norton

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Girl, Once, Awhile, Indulge

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

More, Which, Importantly, Perfection

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

Love, Always, Still, Scariest

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

New, Been, Actress, Brushing

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Rules, Some, Them, Improvising

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

Wait, Populace, Almost, Segment

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

I Remember, Remember When, Rodriguez

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

Education, Politics, New, Academia

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Why, Embarrassed, Anybody, Cringe

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

Love, Making, Include, Fashionable

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.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Wait, My Own, Like, Respectful

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.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Education, My Own, Religious, Unconventional

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

Parent, Give, Will, Neighborhood

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Very, Named, Flattering, Shoe

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

Own, About, Shop, Getting Dressed

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

Love, Door, New, Beautiful Thing

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

Some, Always, Like, Assume

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Old-Fashioned, Prefer, Email

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!

- Sarah Jessica Parker

House, I Think, Eight, Screaming

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

Woman, Everybody, Infinitely, All People

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

Love, Lovely, Jennifer, Youthful

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.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

New, Here, Other, Important People

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Yourself, Other, Your, Instincts

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

Depend, Concerned, Very, Worried

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Self, Single, Couple, Shelf

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

Myself, Always, Large, Helpful

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

Think, Big, Been, Helpful

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.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Lovely, Lucky, Very, Borrow

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

New, Single, Most, Gay

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

Parent, Learn, Everyone Else, Secretly

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, Like, Sphinx, Unmarried

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

Dress, Hire, Streets, Sitter

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

Motivating, Editorial, Read, Political Ideology

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Work, Strong, Take, Ethic

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Money, See, Like, Hanging

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Relationship, Art, Does, Compromise

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Love, Some, Wear, Institution

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Thought, Big, Size, Disappointed

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Mistakes, Roads, Many, Detours

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Night, My Life, Ballet, Single Night

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

Love, Other, Very, Our Lives

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.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Best, Nothing, Ourselves, Families

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Mistake, Fate, Your, Miss

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.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Thoughts, Some, Certainly, Occasions

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Romantic, Desperate, Often, Generally

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

Incredible, Still, Am, Likes

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Doing, Flag, Feel, Freak

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Healthy, Now, Less, Pollyanna

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

Work, Famous, Daily Life, Trade

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Women, Men, Balls

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Never, Bed, Too, Looking

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

Living, More, Anybody, Well-Known

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Dress, Want, Shape, Silly

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.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Theatre, Movie, Like, Quit

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Dream, Actress, Would, Theater

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Love, I Write, About, Sex

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

My Life, How, Depended, Facebook

Do we need distance to get close?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Need, Close, Get, Distance

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Wedding, Her, Dreamt, Birth

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Real, Back, Real People, Right Back

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Thought, Only, Very, Two People

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

Career, Sometimes, Before, Marry

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Mistakes, Fate, Our, Maybe

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

Forgiveness, Forget, You, Forgive

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