Sarah Jessica Parker
I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.
I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.
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.
We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.
I love Matthew Broderick. Call me crazy, but I love him. We can only be in the marriage we are. We're very devoted to our family and our lives. I love our life. I love that he's the father of my children, and it's because of him that there's this whole other world that I love.
I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.
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 Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.
My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.
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.
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.
It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.
Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.
If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.
If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.
People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.
People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.
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.
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
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.
Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.Collection: Single
It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.Collection: Opportunity
I'm curious about everything, except what people have to say about me.Collection: People
You can’t stop being who you are because you’re afraid.Collection: Who You Are
After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.Collection: Fall
Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?Collection: Women
People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.Collection: Silly
Most important to me is my home life and the well-being of my children.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Jobs
I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Shoes
The women's choice of footwear doesn't speak for their most important inner life, but rather it tells a story - this is an opportunity to express themselves. I think the thing that's most compelling about other people is when you don't look like you're trying to dress like your friend, colleague, neighbor, or anything else. That's a very arresting and exciting and compelling quality to possess - not everybody has the courage to walk out the door feeling like themselves, but once they do, it's thrilling to witness.Collection: Opportunity
I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.Collection: More Time
If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.Collection: Nice
He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.Collection: Funny
I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'Collection: Book
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.Collection: Book
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. I am so desperately worried about anybody saying, "She cut in line," or "She took our table," or "She doesn't do her own grocery shopping." 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 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.Collection: School
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.Collection: Thinking
I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.Collection: Smart
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.Collection: Children
It's never been integral to the story that I take my clothes off. I've always had clauses in my contracts saying no nudity and no body doubles... I admire actresses who can do it without feeling exploited. As long as it's their own free will, I think it's great. It's not a moral judgement, I've just never felt comfortable doing it - I'm too modest.Collection: Dirty
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.Collection: Tired
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.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Country
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.Collection: Reading
I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.Collection: Thinking
Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.Collection: Children