Top 160 Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’m just like any other regular mum; cooking, cleaning, wiping butts, picking up after kids, being a wife and helping the kids with their homework. Mind you, I’m terrible at maths. I can’t even do my six-year-old’s maths homework with her.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

52. “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

53. “It’s so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, ‘I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.’”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

54. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

55. “My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

56. “I am very passionate about non-toxic food and beauty and home.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

57. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

58. “I’ll take my wrinkles. I don’t like the Botox thing.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

59. “During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

60. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

61. “I’m a real blue jeans girl, I wear jeans all the time and I couldn’t live without them. Jeans and blazers.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

62. “Every time I have a bikini wax, Cameron Diaz holds me down.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

63. “I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

64. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

65. “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!”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

66. “I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

67. “I really don’t like drunk women; I think it is such a bad look. I think it’s very inappropriate and I don’t like it. I don’t really have drunk friends.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

68. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

69. “I love men, even though they’re lying, cheating scumbags.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

70. “I don’t mind girls or boys. My mother gets upset when I say I want all girls because Apple is so fabulous.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

71. “I don’t eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

72. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

73. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

74. “I think the most important beauty lesson I’ve learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

76. “You can call me a lot of things, but you can’t call me complacent!”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

77. “On daughter Apple’s accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don’t mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

78. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

79. “If I’m lucky, I can do a facial once a month.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

80. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

82. “I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

83. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

84. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

85. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

86. “I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

87. “If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I’ve learned that somewhere that’s a judgment I’m holding about myself, so I’ll try to work through that.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

88. “One cold wintry day in London, I was dreaming about salad nicoise – one of my favorites.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

89. “Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

90. “Much the way I want to know if my food is farm-raised, or wild, or if my orange juice is fresh or from concentrate. I also believe I have the right, and we as Americans all have the right to know what’s in our food.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

91. “People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I’m just tired of it.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

92. “I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

93. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

94. “I use omega-3 oil. I love light oil on my skin. It’s one of my favorite feelings in the world.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

95. “My hair is pretty wavy. And it’s coarse and color-treated so I’m big on conditioner and conditioning masks.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

96. “If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it’s very very good for the nervous system.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

97. “I don’t really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they’re building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

99. “I made a pact with myself that I’d rather have less money than be embarrassed.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

100. “I think my favourite thing is understanding the responsibility of raising two human beings and putting them into the world.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow