Quotes from Sarah Jessica Parker

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

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.

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.

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

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.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

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

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

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

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

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!

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.

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

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.

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

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

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.

I 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.

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.

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.

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.