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
I think the most important beauty lesson I've learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do.
It’s much harder for me. I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening. When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, ‘We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,’ and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.
I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.
It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was producing, was great, reminding me that nine times out of 10, they just have gas.
Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidney. I'm so tired. But when you're having dinner with your kids and your husband and someone says something funny or you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiess.
I'm able to be a normal mom for the most part. I'm in [clothing store] Brandy Melville like all the other moms.
I remember when I started acting and didn't get a part and was really jealous of the girl who got it. My mom would say to me, "If you don't get a part, that means it's not your part. It's just not yours. You will have your parts." It really recalibrated me at a very young age to where I could be driven because I was trying to achieve things for myself, and that had nothing to do with what anybody else was doing.
[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.
I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set,
I used to say to my dad, 'How did you and Mom stay married for all this time?' and he'd say, 'Two things. Number one: You gotta have the same dreams. One person can't be daydreaming about walking down the street in Paris, the other person want to work in a coal mine. Number two: We never wanted to get divorced at the same time.'
It would be easier on them now had they not talked to the press about each other to begin with. I learned my lesson at 24,
Europeans are incredibly negative about America at the moment. I think they lose sight of the fact that the country's a very divided place right now.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let me act until I graduated from college.
I was very interested in art and art history. I probably would have pursued that somehow - working in a gallery or an auction house.