Gwyneth Paltrow

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

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.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

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

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 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.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

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

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

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.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

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.

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

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

I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

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