Quotes from Sarah Jessica Parker

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.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

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.

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

I don't feel that my life, my professional life, is married to a reliance upon Instagram.

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I don't believe in e-mail. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

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

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

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.

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.

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. It takes you right there.

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.

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 spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.