Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes
Actress
Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
The simpler things are, the happier they are.
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.
I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.
I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.
Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
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.
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 have a very highly developed sense of denial.
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.
When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
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.
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.
I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
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.
I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.
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.
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'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.
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'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.
I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.
The Jewish part of me is superstitious.
I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.
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 know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.
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 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.
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.
The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
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 eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.
Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.
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.
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.
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.
I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.
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?
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.
When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.
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.
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.
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
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.
During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.
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.