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"I've always thought that less was a lot more"

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A lot of celebrity wisdom collapses under scrutiny; Kim Cattrall's line holds because it sneaks a dare into a shrug. "Less was a lot more" is deliberately plainspoken, almost childlike in its grammar, which is the point: it frames restraint not as deprivation but as leverage. The phrasing turns minimalism into a flex, suggesting that the real power move is knowing what to withhold.

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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Cattrall, Kim. (n.d.). I've always thought that less was a lot more. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-always-thought-that-less-was-a-lot-more-23439/

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Cattrall, Kim. "I've always thought that less was a lot more." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-always-thought-that-less-was-a-lot-more-23439/.

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Kim Cattrall (born August 21, 1956) is a Actress from England.

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