Gwyneth Paltrow
I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Wedding
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.Collection: Travel
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.Collection: Marriage
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?Collection: Wisdom
I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Amazing
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.Collection: Family
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.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Amazing
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.Collection: Dad
Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.Collection: Beauty
The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.
I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.
I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.
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.
The simpler things are, the happier they are.
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.
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.
I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.
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 love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.
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 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 really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.
We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.
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.
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.
I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.
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 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.
When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.
There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
The Jewish part of me is superstitious.
Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.
My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
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.
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.
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'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 wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.