Gwyneth Paltrow's Quotes

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.

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.

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.

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

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

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

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.