Top 100 Quotes About Sarah Jessica Parker
#1. I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff.
Amanda Peet
#2. I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play and it came out really quickly. Eventually I got it, and I wrote a letter to Sarah Jessica Parker and she wanted to do it. So that's how it happened.
Amanda Peet
#3. I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called 'Satellite' that did well in festivals.
Stephanie Szostak
#4. I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.
Philip Treacy
#9. 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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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#15. I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.
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#16. I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?
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#17. 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.
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#19. The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.
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#23. Where's the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?
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#24. 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.
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#26. After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.
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#33. I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.
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#34. I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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 do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.
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#38. People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.
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#39. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
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#42. I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.
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#43. I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things ... I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.
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#44. I've always been an actor. That's my job - I can be anything you want me to be.
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#45. I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. The firsts go away - first love, first kiss, first baby. You have to create new ones.
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#49. Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.
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#51. 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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#52. I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.
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#53. 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.
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#54. I thought if I had straight hair and a perfect nose, my whole career would be different.
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#55. The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?
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#57. I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.
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#58. I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don't shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.
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#59. I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
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#62. When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
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#63. It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.
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#65. We didn't have a lot when I was growing up, and it's the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.
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#66. I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.
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#67. People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.
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#69. I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'
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#70. If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward.
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#71. I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter ...
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#72. 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.
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#73. What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
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#74. 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.
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#76. If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
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#77. People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
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#78. Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#84. I eat everything. I'm just an eater. If it's free, I honestly eat everything.
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#85. I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.
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#86. If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.
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#87. I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.
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#88. Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.
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#89. And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
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#90. It's like the riddle of the Sphinx ... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
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#91. 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.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.
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#95. I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.
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#96. 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.
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#98. I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.
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#100. 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.
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