Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

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

"Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?

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.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

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 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.

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.

I'm having so much fun building my makeup business, and it's a huge responsibility. It's not a side job. The more it can run without me, the more I'll be able to go back to acting. For now, I feel fulfilled.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

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

My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

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

Physically, it completely changed me. I found strength that I never thought I had. And mentally, I mean, it's taught me just patience and letting go, and it's really changed my whole psychological outlook, I think.

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

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

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

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 was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

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.

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

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it's incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading. I think, oh, you're really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.

By 40, all women are amazing.

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

I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.

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

I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

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

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

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'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

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

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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

I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I'm not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.

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

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

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.

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