Top 160 Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I’m opening a supermarket for him.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

2. “The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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3. “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.”

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4. “Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidneys. I’m so tired.”

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5. “I’m superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.”

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6. “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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7. “Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “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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10. “Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.”

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11. “I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.”

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12. “I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.”

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

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

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15. “I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I’m ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.”

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16. “I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that’s a nice time to bring the family together.”

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17. “What I’ve learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.”

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

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19. “There are makeup artists sometimes that have a jade face roller. If you’re really tired those are really good.”

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20. “The Jewish part of me is superstitious.”

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21. “Unfortunately, most products are full of plastic and silicones and parabens and things that are really not good for us but they give that silky finish.”

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22. “To be a woman in your forties, I think it’s a fantastic decade.”

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23. “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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24. “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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25. “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.”

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26. “I think the most clear, direct way to empowerment is to really know yourself and to really use your voice and to not be afraid of other people’s reactions.”

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27. “I’ll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, ‘You have the answers. You are your teacher.’ I thought I was having an auditory hallucination.”

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

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29. “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.”

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30. “I realised Life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I’d rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I’m proud of...”

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31. “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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32. “Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.”

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33. “I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.”

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34. “I don’t want to be rich and I don’t want to be famous.”

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35. “I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn’t thought of dessert.”

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38. “I have a very highly developed sense of denial.”

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39. “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.”

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

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42. “I don’t eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.”

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

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44. “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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45. “Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that’s just not life.”

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46. “I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I’m doing. A lot of days I fail and there’s too much to do. I do think it’s really important to have time to yourself, whether that’s reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.”

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47. “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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48. “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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49. “It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.”

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50. “I’ve learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you’ll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow