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. – 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
Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before. – 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
I don’t know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. – Gwyneth Paltrow
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. – 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
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. – 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
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business. – Gwyneth Paltrow
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. – Gwyneth Paltrow
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. – Gwyneth Paltrow
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we’re all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it’s true. – 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
We feel it’s unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is. – 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
Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don’t have that many good years left in me. – Gwyneth Paltrow
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it’s so addictive. – Gwyneth Paltrow
My playground was the theatre. I’d sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that’s pretty seductive. – 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
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. – Gwyneth Paltrow
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. – Gwyneth Paltrow
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. – Gwyneth Paltrow
There’s something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too. – 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
