Quotes by Gwyneth Paltrow

I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.

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

I come from a real rabbinical dynasty, and it couldn't help but have fashioned my life. It's given me so much inner peace and inner strength.

I used to be excellent. Now that I have a baby and I couldn't tell you what day it is.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

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

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

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

I'll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It's a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can't do that.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

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

During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

Drink while you cook. Make it fun.

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

I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.

My actual beauty routine is pretty simple, I try and have a facial once in a while. I'm not a huge products girl. I have so much going on with work and kids, I just use moisturiser basically.

If I'm lucky, I can do a facial once a month.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

I really don't like drunk women; I think it is such a bad look. I think it's very inappropriate and I don't like it. I don't really have drunk friends.

People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.

I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun -- how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

I don't know if I came to this life with it or if it's something that came to me in my childhood, but I do feel that some of the things my parents said to me and how they raised me really stuck with me.

I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.

They love a brown rice stir-fry, but they also love their 'Coke of the week'...My daughter gravitates toward fresh fruit and raw nuts but will inhale a bag of hot Cheetos at the airport. It's all about balance.

I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

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 look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.

I'm never going again on Met Gala. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

There's a portion of the movie where something bad happens to me, and I lose my clothes along the way, so essentially I'm wearing a bra and trousers. There are certain requirements, but luckily I have a good base because I work out often.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks.

For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it.

On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.

It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'

I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.

I'm a real blue jeans girl, I wear jeans all the time and I couldn't live without them. Jeans and blazers.

Self -- belief is everything. Whether you want to start a law firm or a jewelry business, women get pushback, societally. People will be like, This is a bad idea. You have to have enough self-belief to see where you're gonna end up and not let anybody derail you.

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I do Tracy Anderson's dance aerobics classes.

I don't have time to devote to putting outfits together before picking up the kids. I'm a creature of habit and in that way, I tend to just go towards what works for me and what's comfortable. It's really important to be comfortable when you're running around after kids.

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations.

I like to dry brush which is really detoxifying for the skin. Exercise is also really important for me for balance and to get those endorphins going.

I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.

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

Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink.

I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, 'You have the answers. You are your teacher.' I thought I was having an auditory hallucination.

Cameron Diaz is probably my biggest beauty mentor of my friends. She knows how to do her own hair and makeup; she's really good at it.

I personally believe in some sort of divine order -- or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.

I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

Every time I have a bikini wax, Cameron Diaz holds me down.

I do really believe that beauty comes from within, mostly how you feel about yourself and how you express love of yourself, but also in the form of nutrition.

Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidneys. I'm so tired.

I realised life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of.

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.

I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced.

There are makeup artists sometimes that have a jade face roller. If you're really tired those are really good.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

Much the way I want to know if my food is farm-raised, or wild, or if my orange juice is fresh or from concentrate. I also believe I have the right, and we as Americans all have the right to know what's in our food.

I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.

I personally think fitness is a very important part of skincare and overall health and wellness and beauty. I think that the skin is our largest organ.

As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

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.

My daughter is super ballsy. I always follow her lead. I actually don't need to encourage her to take risks. She likes to push herself; she wants to see how far she can get. It's really inspiring to see that in a young woman.

I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.

I'm very, very lucky in that I have a partner who is willing to do it with me in a really collaborative way. Fortunately, even though we couldn't stay in a romantic relationship, our values are very much around the importance of family and the importance of those relationships.

People think, She's just a rich kid. Until I was 18, I was. Then I was broke. I've never taken a dime off my parents. I'm completely self -- made.

I'm just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I'm terrible at maths. I can't even do my six-year-old's maths homework with her.

I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.

I love men, even though they're lying, cheating scumbags.

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.

I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.

I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.

Jessica Seinfeld made a toast. She turned to the assembled guests. 'And you are all so lucky to be part of Gwyneth's world. Because this is the real deal. And she's invited all of you good people in here. I would never do that.'

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

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

When I was pregnant, I couldn't wear fragrance. I couldn't smell anything. I couldn't smell flowers, I was very sensitive to everything. I could smell orange juice from across the room and I remember thinking, 'I will throw up.'

I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like.