Gwyneth Quotes

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore ... ~ Zac Posen

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

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

"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? ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow ... I think she's amazing. ~ Tara Reid

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I don't mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset when I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I personally think fitness is a very important part of skincare and overall health and wellness and beauty. I think that the skin is our largest organ. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit. ~ Rebecca Hall

I'm a real blue jeans girl, I wear jeans all the time and I couldn't live without them. Jeans and blazers. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I only wanted to . . . I mean, just now, when Mr. George interrupted us, there was something very important I wanted to say to you."
"It is about what I told you in the church yesterday? I mean, I can understand that you may think me crazy because I see these beings, but a psychiatrist wouldn't make any difference."
Gideon frowned. "Just keep quiet for a moment, would you? I have to pluck up all my courage to make you a declaration of love . . . I've had absolutely no practice in this kind of thing."
"What?"
"Gwyneth," he said, perfectly seriously, "I've fallen in love with you."
My stomach muscles contracted as if I'd had a shock. But it was joy. "Really?"
"Yes, really!" In the light of the torch I saw Gideon smile. "I do realize we've known each other for less than a week, and at first I thought you were rather . . . childish, and I probably behaved badly to you. But you're terribly complicated, I never know what you'll do next, and in some ways you really are terrifyingly . . . er. . . naïve. Sometimes I just want to shake you."
"Okay, I can see you were right about having no practice in making declarations of love," I agreed.
"But then you're so amusing, and clever, and amazingly sweet," Gideon went on, as if he hadn't heard me. "And the worst of it is, you only have to be in the same room and I need to touch you and kiss you . . ."
"Yes, that's really too bad," I whispered, and my heart turned over as Gideon took the hatpin ou ~ Kerstin Gier

Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work. ~ Karisma Kapoor

If I'm lucky, I can do a facial once a month. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand. ~ Kathy Griffin

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

I think the most important beauty lesson I've learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Fookin' Irish, they're a race of political masochists, they love their fookin' chiefs and princes an' a strong hand belting. It's like the man said in the play, Abair and focal republic i nGaoluinn? ~ Gwyneth Jones

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! ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

The physicality was important to me. Because the film has Shane Black's dialogue, and [Robert] Downey's delivery, and you look at [Jon] Favreau, Don Cheadle and Gwyneth [Paltrow], it is this heightened level with a comedic aspect to it. Everything is grounded in reality, but it plays a little heightened. ~ James Badge Dale

Explain your type again." Ash says. "Let's define the problem."
I squint my eyes, because everyone knows that makes you smarter. I didn't know I had a type, but when I look back at my few exes over the years… yeah, there seems to be a pattern. "Frail-looking, vegetarian or gluten free, intellectual, ironic, good hygiene."
Sadie and Ash just look at me for a beat. "Thank God we're helping you." Ash says. "I mean, what the fuck? Why didn't we notice this before?"
Sadie is nodding.
Ash says, "so we just need to find someone who's huge, a carnivore, doesn't talk, smells manly and… what's the opposite of ironic?"
"I have no idea. Let's simplify it. We're looking for a man, instead of what you've been attracted to."
"What have I been attracted to?"
"Gwyneth Paltrow I'm pretty sure. And every time I see her on TV, I just want to kick her. ~ Sarina Bowen

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.' ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

When you kiss me, Gwyneth, I feel I'm losing touch with the ground. I don't know how you do it or where you learnt the trick of it. If it was from a film, well, we just have to go and see it together." He stopped for a moment. "What I really want to say is, when you kiss me, all I want is to feel you and hold you in my arms. Hell, I'm so in love with you that it feels like someone had emptied a can of gasoline somewhere inside me and set fire to it! But right now, we can't ... we have to keep a cool head. Or one of us, anyway." The look he gave me finally put an end to my doubts. "Gwenny, all this terrifies me. Without you, there'd be no sense in my life anymore ... I'd want to die if anything happened to you. ~ Kerstin Gier

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

He propped his cane up, placed his arm on the wall beside her and leaned casually, close to her. Closer than was proper. Her womanly essence sent his thoughts scattering. "Gwyneth, I wonder, have you ever had a kiss that near took your breath away?"
Her cheeks reddened even more.
"I confess, just the thought of kissing you the way I would like does that to me. ~ Vonda Sinclair

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Creu Gwir fel gwydr o ffwrnais awen Creating truth like glass from the furnace of inspiration ~ Gwyneth Lewis

I caught a glimpse of my face in the mirror as we glided p. I looked as eroded as the groaning lift. What had happened to the fresh-faced belle from Boston, Mass.? The woman who stared back at me was at the dreaded age between forty-five and fifty, that no-man's land of sag, oncoming wrinkle, and stealthy approach of menopause.
"I hate this elevator, too," I said grimly.
Zoe grinned and pinched my cheek.
"Mom, even Gwyneth Paltrow would look like hell in that mirror."
I had to smile. That was such a Zoe-like remark. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

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

Why I enjoyed doing Iron Man because it opened me up to this new world where fans are so passionate. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces. ~ Gwyneth Lewis

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

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

It is quite possible that I have underestimated you, Gwyneth. But that's no reason for you to overestimate yourself. ~ Kerstin Gier

My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she'd be doing sixths. I said, 'Where in the world did that come from?' She'd just make up songs. ~ Blythe Danner

As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you. ~ Gwyneth Lewis

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you."
"Yes, but it's my favorite bit of wall, Gordon. I'd hurt its feelings if I didn't stop and talk to it. ~ Kerstin Gier

I'm never going again. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Relying so heavily on an individual is dangerous, Because you never truly know who they put their dependency in And when they walk away You'll never fully recover that piece of you they took with them. ~ Gwyneth Oviere

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm very, very lucky in that I have a partner who is willing to do it with me in a really collaborative way. Fortunately, even though we couldn't stay in a romantic relationship, our values are very much around the importance of family and the importance of those relationships. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers! ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

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

I freaking love Gwyneth Paltrow - I think she's awesome. She is fantastic. ~ Chord Overstreet

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. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

When I was pregnant, I couldn't wear fragrance. I couldn't smell anything. I couldn't smell flowers, I was very sensitive to everything. I could smell orange juice from across the room and I remember thinking, 'I will throw up.' ~ Gwyneth Paltrow