Top 100 Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!
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#4. I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.
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#5. I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
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#6. "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?
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#7. 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.
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#8. I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans,
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#9. I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.
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#11. In my 20s because I was working on films so much and travelling so much and doing press, I was single with no kids and I think that's the time when not only are you trying on looks, but you're trying on personalities - you're still really forming.
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#12. I'm never going again. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.
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#13. I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.
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#14. For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it.
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#15. People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.
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#16. My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
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#17. I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.
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#18. 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.'
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#19. I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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.
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#23. If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.
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#24. You have to know why you're rushing about. It's OK to rush about but it's important to know what's driving you, the positives of it and the negatives of it.
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#25. If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.
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#26. The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
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#27. I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.
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#28. I personally think fitness is a very important part of skincare and overall health and wellness and beauty. I think that the skin is our largest organ.
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#29. I try to take care of my hair because it sort of has to withstand a lot of blowdrying and ironing.
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#30. I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.
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#31. 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.
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#32. My actual beauty routine is pretty simple, I try and have a facial once in a while. I'm not a huge products girl. I have so much going on with work and kids, I just use moisturiser basically.
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#33. 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.
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#34. We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.
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#35. I really wanted my creams to feel luxurious and have a beautiful finish, and it's harder to do that with natural ingredients.
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#36. I'm a bit traditional in the way that I think that a woman draws her energy from the house. Food is a really nice way of expressing that energy and love, and doing something with care and putting time into it and nourishing your family.
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#37. I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.
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#38. I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.
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#39. 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?
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#40. You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to love than be loved. Because that is when you feel love, by loving somebody.
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#41. I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.
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#42. Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
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#43. As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
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#44. If you go in in the morning and have had a rough night, dunking your face in ice water is really good.
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#45. I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.
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#47. We've been married for more than eight years now and we're still into it. I think you do fall in and out of love and you just keep going, and every time you go through a really difficult phase, you rediscover something new and it just gets better.
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#48. People who are criticizing ... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.
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#49. Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him.
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#51. The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
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#52. Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.
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#53. We're human beings and the sun is the sun-how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you
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#54. She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.
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#55. For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.
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#56. Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.
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#57. When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.
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#58. 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.
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#59. To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.
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#60. I definitely don't read any tabloids. You really have to find a way to separate the words of people you respect - stranger or not, but respectful content, positive or negative - and people who are just in pain and projecting their own sh*t onto you.
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#61. 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.
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#62. I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.
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#63. 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.
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#64. I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.
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#65. 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.
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#66. You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations,
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#67. There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
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#68. After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
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#69. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your children think. So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I'd say, do what is right for you and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks
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#70. I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun ... except hot dogs.
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#71. I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.
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#72. Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.
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#73. 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.
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#74. One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad nicoise - one of my favorites.
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#75. If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.
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#76. There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.
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#77. I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.
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#81. My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks.
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#82. I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.
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#83. I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.
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#84. Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.
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#85. It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.
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#86. I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.
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#87. 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.
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#88. 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.
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#89. My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
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#90. 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.
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#91. I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.
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#92. 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.
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#93. They love a brown rice stir-fry, but they also love their 'Coke of the week ... My daughter gravitates toward fresh fruit and raw nuts but will inhale a bag of hot Cheetos at the airport. It's all about balance.
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#94. I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.
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#95. During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.
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#96. I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.
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#97. I do really believe that beauty comes from within, mostly how you feel about yourself and how you express love of yourself, but also in the form of nutrition.
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#98. 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.
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#99. 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.
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#100. 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.
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