Sarah Jessica Parker's Quotes
Born: 1965-03-25
Profession: Actress
Nation: American
Biography of Sarah Jessica Parker
Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!
Tags: Big, Friends, ThoughtI don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
Tags: Calling, Girl, HangingI 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.
Tags: Actor, Idea, LivingI have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.
Tags: Family, Large, OutsideI 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.
Tags: Famous, Life, WorkI tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.
Tags: Fun, Life, SingleIf two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.
Tags: Between, Thought, WrongIt's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
Tags: Great, Men, WomenWhat I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.
Tags: Else, Learn, LearnedI'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.
Tags: Fashion, Thoughts, TimeOne 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.
Tags: Education, Great, PoliticsWe 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.
Tags: Best, Ourselves, TimeI don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.
Tags: Against, Humanity, LifeI 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. It takes you right there.
Tags: Black, Home, RememberI 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.
Tags: Beautiful, Getting, MotherI'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.
Tags: Give, Someone, WorkI'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.
Tags: Family, Government, MeanIt'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.
Tags: Hard, School, WaitMy 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.
Tags: Job, Put, TeacherRead the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.
Tags: Great, Opinion, PoliticalThe 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.
Tags: Beautiful, Love, YourselfWhen 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.
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When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Tags: Men, Romantic, WomenI don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.
Tags: Good, Judge, OthersFollow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
Tags: Become, Opinion, YourselfAnd 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.
Tags: Children, Give, RealSo 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.
Tags: Children, Control, JoyIf I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
Tags: Life, Night, SingleMen who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.
Tags: Good, Looking, MenI developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.
Tags: Granted, Strong, WorkYou can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.
Tags: Friends, Rat, SquirrelAs a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.
Tags: Care, Time, WomanI have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.
Tags: Here, Husband, KnownI love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.
Tags: Great, Love, SpecialIn a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
Tags: Art, Become, CompromiseYou can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.
Tags: Destiny, Sure, WhyYou just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.
Tags: Keep, Quite, YourselfYou want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.
Tags: Life, Stop, UsingAt every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.
Tags: Group, Social, WhateverFacebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.
Tags: Bored, Social, TryingI can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.
Tags: Maybe, Stories, WorkI lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.
Tags: Become, Friend, HomeI think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.
Tags: Become, Cool, DollarsI think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.
Tags: Become, Power, RealityIf there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.
Tags: End, Free, WantedIt would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.
Tags: End, History, TakesMy interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'
Tags: Him, Saying, TrustThe market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.
Tags: Best, Talent, WorkThere came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.
Tags: Give, Time, YourselfYou start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.
Tags: Music, Point, StartI definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.
Tags: Freedom, Money, WantedAt the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.
Tags: End, Money, PoliticsI suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
Tags: Delusion, Possible, RealI think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.
Tags: Biggest, Power, ProblemRunning a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
Tags: Blood, Running, StartSolving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
Tags: Career, Interested, ProblemsPart of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.
Tags: Challenge, Try, TryingFacebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.
Tags: Away, Hard, LivesGray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.
Tags: Good, Learn, ShowsI had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
Tags: Actually, Control, DesireI've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.
Tags: Fit, Investing, RealizedIt seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.
Tags: Problems, Seems, WorkingIt's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.
Tags: End, Game, KindsOne of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.
Tags: Friends, Hard, LivingSpotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.
Tags: Bring, Industry, MoneyStart-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.
Tags: Candidates, Key, TalkingThere's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.
Tags: Artists, Whose, WrittenThere's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
Tags: Artists, Between, OlderWhat comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
Tags: After, Revolution, Wins