Quotes from Gwyneth Paltrow

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

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

It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I'm opening a supermarket for him.

I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

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

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.