390 Quotes by Gwyneth Paltrow

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink.

I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.

When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there.

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.

He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100 percent of his attention. But if he isn't at home, I turn on the hip-hop. I'm like a bad mutha rapping along to every word as I cook.

I really wanted my creams to feel luxurious and have a beautiful finish, and it's harder to do that with natural ingredients.

I'm never going again. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.

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.