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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic,…

— 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…

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I have to gain weight, I cant be one of those people that never does it. I would go crazy. I like…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink.

— 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.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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

— 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…

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I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody…

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Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a…

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Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Bring a raincoat, definitely ... or at Least a little umbrella that can fit in your bag, because it always does rain.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

In my 20s because I was working on films so much and travelling so much and doing press, I was single with…

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

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It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in…

— Gwyneth Paltrow