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Gwyneth Paltrow
American
Actress
About the author
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Father
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Reason
#Living
#Rome
#Greece
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Film
#Building
#Control
#Performance
#Theater
#Evening
We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Nothing
It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Want
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#People
#Work
#Career
#Opportunity
#Travel
It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Want
#Time
#People
#Waste
My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Want
#Time
#Act
#Dad
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Life
#Death
#Father
#Meeting
#HusbDaughter
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Pretty
#Living
#Mother
#Theatre
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Being
#Business
#Marriage
Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Love
#End
#Feeling
There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Want
#Stars
#Actors
When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#People
#Eye
#Public
Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#People
#Stars
#Women
#Office
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#People
#Artist
The Jewish part of me is superstitious.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
I have a very highly developed sense of denial.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Sense
#Denial
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Life
#Love
#England
Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Years
#Beauty
Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Being
#Beauty
#Skin
Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Film
#Performance
#Theater
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Time
#Work
#Daughter
#Baby
I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Popular
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Feeling
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Play
#Act
#Parents
#College
#Queen
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Time
#Work
I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Eye
#Being
I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Celebrity
#Actor
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Friends
#Grave
I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#America
#Conversation
I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
American
Actress
#Beauty