During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.
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.
I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.
I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.
There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
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.
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.
Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.
I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.
The simpler things are, the happier they are.
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.
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.
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.
When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.
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 don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.
I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.
I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.
I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.
I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.
We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.
I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?
I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.
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.
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.
I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.
I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.
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.
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.
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.
What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.
Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.
I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.
Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.
I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.
The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.
Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.
