Quotes By 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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