Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.

They love a brown rice stir-fry, but they also love their 'Coke of the week ... My daughter gravitates toward fresh fruit and raw nuts but will inhale a bag of hot Cheetos at the airport. It's all about balance.

We've been married for more than eight years now and we're still into it. I think you do fall in and out of love and you just keep going, and every time you go through a really difficult phase, you rediscover something new and it just gets better.

When we're home sometimes, she'll put on mascara. And sometimes I'll let her wear something out to dinner - but just a little dab. Also having a father who adores you the way that he adores her is very good for your body image. The more we can love her and let her be who she is, the more confident she'll feel.

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

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

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.

If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.

My actual beauty routine is pretty simple, I try and have a facial once in a while. I'm not a huge products girl. I have so much going on with work and kids, I just use moisturiser basically.

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.

In my 20s because I was working on films so much and travelling so much and doing press, I was single with no kids and I think that's the time when not only are you trying on looks, but you're trying on personalities - you're still really forming.

I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations,

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.

My golden time is after I drop the kids off at school. I'm usually working on my website (lifestyle site Goop) and checking emails but I try to do something at least once a week - like a facial or a visit to the osteopath - something to bring myself back into my body.

No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where ... I don't really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it's incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading. I think, oh, you're really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.

I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.

I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.

I'm trying to be good with my skin care now that I'm getting older. I really do think it's from the inside - so exercise, hydration, sleep, sex.

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

I don't understand what people's fascination is with [our] relationship. If we're in the same city, we go out ... Sometimes when I'm in L.A., I stay at his [Ben Affleck's] house. But it's not what people think. We're not together, I swear on my life.

I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, 'You have the answers. You are your teacher.' I thought I was having an auditory hallucination.

It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

You have to know why you're rushing about. It's OK to rush about but it's important to know what's driving you, the positives of it and the negatives of it.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

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

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

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

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

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.

On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.

It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

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

I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don't believe in organized religion at all. It's what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks.

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.

Physically, it completely changed me. I found strength that I never thought I had. And mentally, I mean, it's taught me just patience and letting go, and it's really changed my whole psychological outlook, I think.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.

When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.

I'm a bit traditional in the way that I think that a woman draws her energy from the house. Food is a really nice way of expressing that energy and love, and doing something with care and putting time into it and nourishing your family.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

"Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

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.

Jessica Seinfeld made a toast. She turned to the assembled guests. 'And you are all so lucky to be part of Gwyneth's world. Because this is the real deal. And she's invited all of you good people in here. I would never do that.'

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.

Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him.

I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I'm terrible at maths. I can't even do my six-year-old's maths homework with her.

I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags.

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 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.

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

Bring a raincoat, definitely ... or at Least a little umbrella that can fit in your bag, because it always does rain.

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

I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

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

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

Mornings and afternoons are my family time and I'm lucky that I can drop the kids off at school, I don't have to be at the office or anything.

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

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

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 don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.

I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

I don't have time to devote to putting outfits together before picking up the kids. I'm a creature of habit and in that way, I tend to just go towards what works for me and what's comfortable. It's really important to be comfortable when you're running around after kids.

I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there.

I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. It's very empowering, and I've learned a lot of that from Jay-Shawn Carter-Z, because his approach to life is very internal. It's a very good lesson to learn.

I try to take care of my hair because it sort of has to withstand a lot of blowdrying and ironing.

If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.

I think the most clear, direct way to empowerment is to really know yourself and to really use your voice and to not be afraid of other people's reactions.

I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

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.

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.

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

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

For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

People who are criticizing ... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.

Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidneys. I'm so tired.

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 was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I
have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every
day.

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

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

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

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

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.

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad nicoise - one of my favorites.

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

I was so bad with the food and alcohol in Nashville. If you saw me naked compared to what I looked like when I did Iron Man 2, when I was exercising every day - I'll get it back together, but I've never eaten so much fried food and white flour in my life, ever.