Quotation Wednesday – The Gwyneth Paltrow Edition – 1

by the messy optimist

“I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.”

From Daily Star

“Apple says ‘Mummy’ instead of ‘Mommy’ — I don’t mind that. I will if she starts saying ‘basil’ and ‘pasta’ the English way, as that really drives me nuts.”

From the New York Daily News

“Every woman can make time [to work out] — every woman — and you can do it with your baby in the room. There have been countless times where I’ve worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.”

From The Guardian

“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.”

“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.”

From InStyle UK

“I look for an interesting supporting part about once a year. That’s the most I can manage. Some women can do it and that’s fantastic, but I can’t. You make choices as a wife and mother, don’t you? You can’t have it all. I don’t care what it looks like.”

From New York Rock

“Well, you know, beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don’t have that many good years left in me. So there will be a downside eventually.” 

At the 2014 Code Conference

“You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it’s a very dehumanizing thing, It’s almost like, how in war, you go through this bloody dehumanizing thing and then something is defined out of it.”

From Self

“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.”

“Men are from Mars – Gwyneth Paltrow is from a Galaxy far, far, far away. And, she needs to go back from wherever she came from.”

The Messy Optimist on Gwyneth Paltrow