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.

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

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.

Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months.

There's so many ups and downs, and there's so many pieces to trying to build a business, and if the intention isn't very, very clear and the business isn't reflecting that intention, then it makes it much harder.

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