"I've always thought that less was a lot more"
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Coming from an actress whose public image is inseparable from Sex and the City - a show that sold maximalism as lifestyle (shoes, brunch, confession, consumption) - the subtext lands with extra bite. It's not just about editing a closet or skipping dessert. It's about performance: the art of leaving space so an audience fills it with desire, curiosity, projection. In acting, as in fame, over-explaining kills the charge. Less dialogue, less pleading, less access can read as confidence.
There's also a quiet corrective here, aimed at industries that reward women for being "more": more agreeable, more available, more exposed, more grateful. Cattrall's career has included very public boundary-setting, and the quote plays like a compressed manifesto for that posture. The line isn't anti-pleasure; it's anti-excess-as-default. It sells a modern kind of elegance: not purity, not austerity, but the tactical choice to stop performing abundance for other people's comfort.
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