Top 90 Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together – like chocolate and peanut butter...”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

52. “Balls are to men what purses are to women.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

53. “People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

54. “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.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

55. “I never was Carrie Bradshaw, but imagine how great it was to be told, “You are obligated to kiss all these men, to dress like that, and to carry on like that!” They were great guys, too.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

56. “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.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

57. “A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

58. “Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

59. “I’m curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

60. “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

61. “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

62. “When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn’t think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

— Sarah Jessica Parker

64. “I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing ‘Hard Knock Life’ in Annie.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

65. “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

66. “I’ve destroyed my feet completely but I don’t care. What do you really need your feet for anyway.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

67. “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.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

68. “I find it so ironic that all you do, for the earliest part of your life, is try to be like everybody else. And then you turn 30, and you realize all you want to do is distinguish yourself in some way.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

69. “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.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

70. “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

71. “I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

— Sarah Jessica Parker

73. “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

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

— Sarah Jessica Parker

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for granted.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

79. “I’ve always been an actor. That’s my job – I can be anything you want me to be.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

80. “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

81. “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

82. “I don’t think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

83. “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

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

— Sarah Jessica Parker

85. “You can’t do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you’re letting somebody down.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

— Sarah Jessica Parker

87. “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.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

88. “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

89. “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

90. “What you think you know versus what you actually learn.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

91. “I’m always nervous before a job! I always think I’m going to be fired, I always think I can’t do it. I always think I’m going to disappoint somebody, myself included.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

92. “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

93. “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

94. “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

95. “I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that’s just because I feel like me.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

— Sarah Jessica Parker

97. “It’s a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker

98. “Matthew and I used to read Dickens together. Oh my god, it was so great. We would sit in the bathtub and pass the book back and forth reading passages out loud.”

— Sarah Jessica Parker