Quotes from Sarah Jessica Parker

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.

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.

Read 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.

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.

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

I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.

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

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

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.