Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
-
I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
-
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
-
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
-
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
-
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
-
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
-
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
-
I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
-
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
-
I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
-
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
-
I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
-
I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
-
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
-
Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
-
Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
-
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
-
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
-
The creativity is just something that, I don't know, you work very hard at, but part of you says that you were born with it. It's a craft like every other, you have to keep sharp and you have to be aware of your surroundings.
-
We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.
-
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
-
Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry.
-
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.
