Top 253 Quotes & Sayings by Gwyneth Paltrow

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

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

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.

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.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

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

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

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

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

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

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

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

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

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

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

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.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

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.

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 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 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.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

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

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.

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

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.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

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

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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