Quotes from Gwyneth Paltrow

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.

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

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

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

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.

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.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.

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.

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

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

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.

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

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

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

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

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.

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

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

I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.

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.

I was very much a tomboy for a long time, but as I start to get older, I realize I better actually try to preserve what I have and I better be a little conscientious about my regime.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.