Top 44 Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

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.

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.

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

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

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 try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They’re my weakness.

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.

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

I don’t eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

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

Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

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.

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

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.

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.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

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

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

I’m sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

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

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

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.

My playground was the theatre. I’d sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that’s pretty seductive.

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

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 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.

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

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.