70 of the Greatest Samantha Jones Quotes: Celebrating Kim Cattrall’s 70th Birthday
Overview
“Easy? Honey, they don’t call it a job for nothing.” It’s the kind of line that, decades after it first aired on Sex and the City, still gets quoted back at brunches and bachelorette parties. To mark Kim Cattrall’s 70th birthday, Vogue rounded up 70 of the sharpest, funniest, and most quietly wise lines ever delivered by Samantha Jones — the character Cattrall turned into a cultural shorthand for confidence, independence, and unapologetic self-possession.
Who Is Samantha Jones, and Why Does She Still Resonate?
Samantha Jones was the publicist of the Sex and the City quartet, and arguably the show’s most quotable character. Where Carrie narrated, Miranda analyzed, and Charlotte idealized, Samantha delivered the punchlines — often about sex, ambition, or aging, always without apology. Her one-liners worked because they weren’t just jokes; they doubled as a philosophy. Samantha treated pleasure, career success, and personal boundaries as things a woman was entitled to claim outright, not negotiate for. That attitude is a big part of why her lines have outlived the show itself, resurfacing constantly on social media as captions, T-shirts, and meme templates.
The Kim Cattrall Connection
Cattrall didn’t just play Samantha — she fought for the character to be written with real agency, particularly around female sexuality and aging, at a time when mainstream television rarely gave women over 40 either. Her 70th birthday is being marked not only as a personal milestone but as a moment to revisit how much of Samantha’s bite came from Cattrall’s own insistence on nuance. The Vogue roundup leans into that legacy, framing the quotes less as nostalgia bait and more as evidence of writing (and performance) that held up.
What Makes These Quotes Endure
Rewatch value aside, the lines that circulate most tend to fall into a few recurring categories: career one-liners about hustle and ambition (like the “job” quote above), takedowns of dating double standards, blunt observations about aging with confidence rather than apology, and toasts to female friendship. That range is part of the appeal — Samantha wasn’t a one-note punchline machine; she was allowed contradictions, softness, and growth across six seasons and two films, which is rarer for supporting characters than it should be.
FAQ
Is this list from the original TV show only, or the movies too? Vogue’s roundup draws from Samantha’s full run, including both feature films, not just the series.
Why 70 quotes specifically? The number ties directly to Cattrall’s milestone birthday, making the list a birthday tribute as much as a retrospective.
Source
Originally published at www.vogue.com.