Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrowis an American actress, singer, and food writer. She gained early notice for her work in films such as the thriller Sevenand the period drama Emma. Following starring roles in the romantic comedy-drama Sliding Doorsand the thriller A Perfect Murder, Paltrow garnered worldwide recognition through her performance in Shakespeare in Love, for which she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Paltrow has portrayed supporting, as well as lead roles, in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth27 September 1972
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
It's the difference between someone who loves you more than anything in the world giving you criticism and getting it from some bitter stranger on the Internet. What my dad said to me was the kind of criticism where I was like, "Oh, my God, I'm on the wrong track." I'm so grateful to him for doing that. He was such a no-nonsense guy in that sense.
The simpler things are, the happier they are.
The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.
I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.
I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not? I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, "You know, you're getting a little weird...You're kind of an asshole." And I was like, "What the hell?" I was totally devastated. But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me.
My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
The Jewish part of me is superstitious.
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.
I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink.
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.
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'm never going again. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.
I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.
I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like.