Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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