Gwyneth Paltrow Quotations

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.

I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.

I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

I'll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It's a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can't do that.

Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.

What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.

I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

I am very proud to be a part of such a fine company, ... Its roots have been deep in the culture of classic American beauty for decades.

I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.

Having had a child, the idea of doing a film and working those 14-hour days and being away from home is something that's very difficult as a concept,

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy.

I think that he's capable of a lot,

I think women who have breastfed understand what I'm saying, that if you get a boob job, it's more reconstructive surgery, actually, than cosmetic surgery. ... I'm sure when the time comes, I'll be in there doing something.

My relationship with my father was the most central relationship of my life from the time I was zero to 30.

I was very interested in art and art history. I probably would have pursued that somehow - working in a gallery or an auction house.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let me act until I graduated from college.

To have to imagine everything, sometimes it is a little bit daunting. Especially when they would tell you to react to something.

Europeans are incredibly negative about America at the moment. I think they lose sight of the fact that the country's a very divided place right now.

It would be easier on them now had they not talked to the press about each other to begin with. I learned my lesson at 24,

It's a very beautiful piece that explores mental illness and complications between people, ... But it's a very uplifting kind of triumphant story in the end ? It's not a somber piece at all.'

It's sort of banned from our home, ... But when he's not around, we play it in the car.

Everyone else thinks it must be the most safe, most advanced and most covetable pushchair on the market.

Oh my gosh. That's terrible. I had no idea. I've known her since I was a little girl. That's really awful.

I mean if there's anyone who can beat it, that woman has such strength and tenacity. I just wish her well of course.

I just have no more bad habits to give up.'

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.

I do really believe that beauty comes from within, mostly how you feel about yourself and how you express love of yourself, but also in the form of nutrition.

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.

Unfortunately, most products are full of plastic and silicones and parabens and things that are really not good for us but they give that silky finish.

I really wanted my creams to feel luxurious and have a beautiful finish, and it's harder to do that with natural ingredients.

I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.