77 Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker is an American actress, producer, and designer best known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO series "Sex And The City. She emphasizes the importance of not settling for less, and this is a lesson for children always to put their best. Some of her quotes also talk about working hard to achieve your goals. Many of Sarah Jessica Parker's quotes encourage people to be true to themselves, take risks, and try new things. These can help children to develop courage and self-appreciation.

What Parents Should Know

• Sarah Jessica Parker has supported many charitable causes over the years, including the Children's Defense Fund, Stand Up to Cancer, and the breast cancer charity Estée Lauder Companies.
• Sarah Jessica Parker has launched many successful business ventures, including a line of fragrances and a fashion line.
• Sarah Jessica Parker is a mother: Sarah Jessica Parker has three children with her husband, actor Matthew Broderick.

What To Discuss With Kids

• Many of Sarah Jessica Parker's quotes emphasize the importance of working hard and never settling for less.
• The importance of staying true to who they are and standing up for what they believe in.
• Why you need to surround yourself with a supportive network of friends and family.
• The power of small acts of kindness and the positive impact they can have on others.

“I’ve spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live? I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes!”

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

“When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers."

"I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance."

“If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.”

"As somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot."

"People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly."

“There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the workday of a mother doesn’t include a hair-making team or any consideration of your shoe.”

“And there, in the same city where they met as girls, four New York women entered the next phase of their lives dressed head to toe in love.”

"I tend to shop, specifically with heels or shoes, for things that I think, "Yeah, this is a long-term relationship."

“Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can’t live without it – that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.”

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

“Every year the women of New York leave the past behind and look forward to the future. This is known as New York Fashion Week.”

“I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes."

“I don’t believe in email. I’m an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.”

"Fashion is not a luxury, it's a right"

"I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed."

“Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!”

"I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet."

"My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater."

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

“I eat everything. I’m just an eater. If it’s free, I honestly eat everything.”

"I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted."

"Men who are too good-looking are never good in bed because they never had to be."

“I’ve destroyed my feet completely but I don’t care.”

“I’ve always been an actor. That’s my job.”

“I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.”

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

"If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies."

"I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful."

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

“Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I’m not kidding.”

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

"If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life."

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

“I tell my friends married life is boring, but that’s just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.”

“Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.”

"You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit."

"Every once in a while, a girl has to indulge herself."

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

"It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me."

"I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it."

"I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy."

"I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child."

“I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they’re wet and you smell them all warm liked a baked good. Love it.”

“So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.”

"What do I know about love?"

“I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.”

“Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?”

“I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak."

“When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.”

“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.”

“I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off-screen as much as on.”

"It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?"

"As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of."

“So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.”

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

“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.”

“You can’t stop being who you are because you’re afraid.”

“Follow your instincts and do not let other people’s opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.”

"If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong."

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

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

“Curiosity is the gateway to everything you know you want, and comfort is like a beautiful prison.”

“Where’s the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?”

“When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?”

“It’s like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that’s the beauty of being transported.”

"Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?"

"In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?"

"Can you really forgive if you can't forget?"

"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."

“If you’re a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It’s the decadent reward.”

“After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.”

"Do we need distance to get close?"

"When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking."

“The firsts go away – first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.”

“When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?”