A biography for Gwyneth Paltrowhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.”
“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.”
“I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.”
“As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.”
“Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.”
“There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.”
“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.”
“Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.”
“When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.”
“Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.”
“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.”