Sarah Jessica Parker credited as playing...
Carrie Bradshaw
- Carrie Bradshaw: It's like the riddle of the Sphinx: why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
- Elizabeth: He never did call, of course. Bastard! I don't understand.
- Carrie Bradshaw: [voiceover narration] She told me one day over coffee.
- Elizabeth: I don't understand. In England, looking at houses together, would have meant something.
- Carrie Bradshaw: [voiceover narration] Then I realized, no one had told her about the end of love in Manhattan. Welcome to the age of un-innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember. Instead, we have breakfast at seven a.m., and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible. Self-protection and closing the deal are paramount. Cupid has flown the co-op!
- [after Carrie had sex with Kurt and she left him 'hanging']
- Carrie Bradshaw: [voiceover narration] After I began to get dressed, I'd realized that I'd done it. I'd just had sex like a man. I left feeling powerful, potent, and incredibly alive. I felt like I owned this city. - Nothing and no one could get in my way.
- Carrie Bradshaw: [voiceover narration] I didn't understand. Did all men secretly want their women promiscuous and emotionally detached? And if I was really having sex like a man, why didn't I feel more in control?
- Samantha Jones: [pointing to Mr. Big] You see that guy? He's the next Donald Trump. Except he's younger and much better looking.
- [and then the handsome man waves at Carrie]
- Carrie Bradshaw: [and it's the man who helped her] Hi!
- Samantha Jones: Do you know him?
- Carrie Bradshaw: [lies] No. I've never seen him in my life.
- Samantha Jones: [sighs] I usually date models, but, hey...! He's as good-looking as a model. Plus, I have my own business.
- [fixes lipstick]
- Carrie Bradshaw: [voice-over] Samantha has the kind of deluded self-confidence that caused men like Ross Perot to run for President.
- [after someone bumped Carrie and she dropped her purse, all its contents fell out onto the sidewalk, and now Mr Big helps her pick up all of it]
- Carrie Bradshaw: [voiceover narration] Number one, he's very handsome. Number two, he's not wearing a wedding ring. Number three, he knows I carry a personal supply of ultra-textured Trojans with a reservoir tip.
- Carrie Bradshaw: So what are you doing later?
- Kurt Harrington: I thought you weren't talking to me for the rest of your life?
- Carrie Bradshaw: Who said anything about talking?
- Mr. Big: So what have you been doing lately?
- Carrie Bradshaw: You mean besides going out every night?
- Mr. Big: Yeah. I mean, what do you do for work?
- Carrie Bradshaw: Well, this is my work. I'm sort of a sexual anthropologist.
- Mr. Big: You mean like a hooker?
- Carrie Bradshaw: No. I umm... I write a column called 'Sex and the City.' Right now I'm researching an article about women who have sex like men. You know, they have sex and then afterwards they feel nothing.
- Mr. Big: But you're not like that?
- Carrie Bradshaw: Well, aren't you?
- Mr. Big: Not a drop. Not even a half of a drop.
- Carrie Bradshaw: Wow! What's wrong with you?
- Mr. Big: I get it... You've never been in love.
- Carrie Bradshaw: Oh, yeah?
- Mr. Big: Yeah.
- [first lines]
- Carrie Bradshaw: [voiceover narration] Once upon a time an English journalist came to New York. Elizabeth was attractive and bright, and right away she hooked up with one of the city's typically eligible bachelors.
- Skipper Johnston: I'm a romantic. I just have so much feeling.
- Carrie Bradshaw: Are you sure you're not gay?
- Skipper Johnston: No!