Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Can you really forgive if you can’t forget?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What I’ve learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

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

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

Do we need distance to get close?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.