390 Quotes by Gwyneth Paltrow

In my 20s because I was working on films so much and travelling so much and doing press, I was single with no kids and I think that’s the time when not only are you trying on looks, but you’re trying on personalities – you’re still really forming.

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.

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

I’ve had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages – things most people don’t get the opportunity to do.

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.’

I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?

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.

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