Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes
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I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.
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Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.
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With each of the men I dated, everything ran its natural course, whether it worked out or not. I never felt burnt by any of them. I don't feel resentful. I don't want those years back. I'm not one of those women who thinks men are bastards. I love men: straight men, gay men. I've always had men close to me, from the time I was a child.
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I feel funny saying this, I'm not really a shoe shopper. I'm not going to go out and buy hundreds of pairs of shoes. I'm much more thoughtful than [Carrie] is, which is also one of the treats of playing her all these years.
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Do we need distance to get close?
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Balls are to men what purses are to women.
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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.
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I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to.
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I've never done nudity in my whole career. I certainly don't think now is the time to start. I don't think it's necessary for anything I've done, although I have absolutely no opinions against anyone who feels comfortable doing it.
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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.
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I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.
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You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only -- the sole sort of gatekeeper of marriage should also support people staying together. I mean, a lot of heterosexual couples don't stay together, and I think that's as upsetting as two people who are really committed and loving and have been monogamous for many years wanting to ... be married and have -- share some of the same rights that this country is so uniquely qualified to give people.
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To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
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In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
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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.
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I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway.
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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.
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When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
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Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
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I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.
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We're all separate and individual people.
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Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?
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I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.
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If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.