I have a very highly developed sense of denial.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The Jewish part of me is superstitious.
When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.
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.
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.
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.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
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.
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.
There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
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.
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 say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.
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'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.
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.
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
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.
