Latest Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm having so much fun building my makeup business, and it's a huge responsibility. It's not a side job. The more it can run without me, the more I'll be able to go back to acting. For now, I feel fulfilled.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Running, Fun, Responsibility

  Source: www.glamour.com

• People think, "She's just a rich kid." Until I was 18, I was. Then I was broke. I've never taken a dime off my parents. I'm completely self - made.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Taken, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Independent, Thinking, Quality

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Self - belief is everything. Whether you want to start a law firm or a jewelry business, women get pushback, societally. People will be like, "This is a bad idea." You have to have enough self-belief to see where you're gonna end up and not let anybody derail you.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  People, Belief, Jewelry

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I'm 43 years old, and I know who I am, and I own my mistakes. They're my business. And when somebody who doesn't know me has an opinion, it's none of my business.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mistake, Opinion, My Mistakes

  Source: www.glamour.com

• As you get older, you choose friends based on not only what feels resonant and warm but if they're bringing something to your life. My women friends are incredibly intelligent. There's no posturing, no competition. Especially in Los Angeles, I see pockets of friends who are very competitive, and I think, What is the point? I would rather be alone in bed with a book than have a girlfriend who is like that.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Girlfriend, Book, Intelligent

  Source: www.glamour.com

• If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mistake, Mentor, Kind

  Source: ew.com

• There's so many ups and downs, and there's so many pieces to trying to build a business, and if the intention isn't very, very clear and the business isn't reflecting that intention, then it makes it much harder.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Trying, Intention, Ups & Downs

  Source: ew.com

• By 40, all women are amazing.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Some really famous people, even when they're off-duty, have this energy that is sort of overpowering.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  People, Energy, Duty

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dad, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dad, Love You, Grateful

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I cannot go to sleep with dishes in the sink.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Sleep, Dishes, Going To Sleep

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Team, People, Groups

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Fall, Goes On, Cleaning

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I look for people who have a slightly different perspective and are trying to move the needle a little bit and push boundaries.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Moving, People, Perspective

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Next, Kind

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• My daughter is super ballsy. I always follow her lead. I actually don't need to encourage her to take risks. She likes to push herself; she wants to see how far she can get. It's really inspiring to see that in a young woman.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Daughter, Risk, Needs

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I'm able to be a normal mom for the most part. I'm in [clothing store] Brandy Melville like all the other moms.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Able, Normal

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I've borne these two kids into a particularly strange circumstance. They are going to have to fend off a lot and protect themselves from a lot of projections and prejudice about who they are, coming from the family that they come from.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Kids, Two, Prejudice

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I don't know if I came to this life with it or if it's something that came to me in my childhood, but I do feel that some of the things my parents said to me and how they raised me really stuck with me.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Childhood, Parent, This Life

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Girl, Mom, Jealous

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• My drive is something that I don't fully understand.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• My father was really good at having me stand on my own two feet, both financially and philosophically. His whole parenting philosophy was to give my brother and me the skills to be grown-ups and the curiosity to ask the right questions.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Brother, Father, Philosophy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Occasionally I'll come across something that's just annoying, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Annoying, Irrelevant

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com