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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Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.
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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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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.
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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 feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose. And that's the beauty of living in a democracy, right?
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Do we need distance to get close?
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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.
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In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
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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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To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
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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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We're all separate and individual people.
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Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?
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I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.
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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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Fashion is not a luxury, it's a right.
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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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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 love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.
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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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I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.
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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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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.