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

My golden time is after I drop the kids off at school. I'm usually working on my website (lifestyle site Goop) and checking emails but I try to do something at least once a week - like a facial or a visit to the osteopath - something to bring myself back into my body.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

Occasionally I'll come across something that's just annoying, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me.

He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100 percent of his attention. But if he isn't at home, I turn on the hip-hop. I'm like a bad mutha rapping along to every word as I cook.

I think the most important beauty lesson I've learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do.