Top 45 Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it’s quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

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.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

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

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 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.

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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.

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.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

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

Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

I don’t eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

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

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

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what’s fresh.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it’s so addictive.

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.

When you’re so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

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.

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it’s 14 hours a day out of the house. You don’t get that time back.

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.

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

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.

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 find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.