Top 160 Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that’s my limit. Some women can do it and that’s fantastic, but I can’t. You make choices as a wife and mother, don’t you? You can’t have it all. I don’t care what it looks like.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

102. “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

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

— Gwyneth Paltrow

104. “When you’re so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

105. “When I turned 40 I thought, ‘I have to really make sure I have time to myself,’ because it’s very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

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

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107. “I was so bad with the food and alcohol in Nashville. If you saw me naked compared to what I looked like when I did Iron Man 2, when I was exercising every day – I’ll get it back together, but I’ve never eaten so much fried food and white flour in my life, ever.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

108. “I wasn’t the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

109. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

110. “The simpler things are, the happier they are.”

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111. “If you go in in the morning and have had a rough night, dunking your face in ice water is really good.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

112. “We feel it’s unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.”

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113. “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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114. “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.’”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

115. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

116. “I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.”

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117. “I think so many people give us ideas of what we are. I think as women especially, because we’re sensitive by nature, we’re more vulnerable, we absorb other people’s ideas about what we’re supposed to think or who we’re supposed to be and how we’re supposed to act.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

118. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

119. “I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I do Tracy Anderson’s dance aerobics classes.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

120. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

121. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

122. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

123. “I’m not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it’s incredibly delicious.”

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124. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

125. “Physically, it completely changed me. I found strength that I never thought I had. And mentally, I mean, it’s taught me just patience and letting go, and it’s really changed my whole psychological outlook, I think.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

126. “One year I was given a birthday present I’ll never forget – a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.”

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127. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

128. “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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129. “I’ve learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It’s very liberating.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

130. “I really like where Tony Robbins says that we’re all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it’s true.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

131. “I don’t know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

132. “My dad always said he couldn’t remember a time when I did not want to act.”

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133. “There’s something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

134. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

135. “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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136. “I’m not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

137. “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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138. “I think my days of trying outrageous things are over. I’m not looking for trends, I just want to be the best version of myself.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

139. “I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it’s not about the ring. It’s a grave thing, getting married.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

140. “I just had a baby. I’m not going to work unless it’s something really special and meaningful, because I can’t imagine missing all that time with my daughter.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

141. “There’s a portion of the movie where something bad happens to me, and I lose my clothes along the way, so essentially I’m wearing a bra and trousers. There are certain requirements, but luckily I have a good base because I work out often.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

142. “As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

143. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

144. “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.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

145. “There have been countless times where I’ve worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

146. “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.”

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147. “When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.”

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148. “I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.”

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149. “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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150. “When I was pregnant, I couldn’t wear fragrance. I couldn’t smell anything. I couldn’t smell flowers, I was very sensitive to everything. I could smell orange juice from across the room and I remember thinking, ‘I will throw up.’”

— Gwyneth Paltrow