Quotes by Gwyneth Paltrow

"Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother."

"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."

"In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things."

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

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

"The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs."

"I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak."

"Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could."

"The simpler things are, the happier they are."

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

"I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing."

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

"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."

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

"I'll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It's a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can't do that."

"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."

"When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."

"I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious."

"Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it."

"The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get."