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Jessica Seinfeld Made A Toast. She Turned To The Assembled Guests. 'and You Are All So Lucky To Be Part Of Gwyneth's World. Because This Is The Real Deal. And She's Invited All Of You Good People In Here. I Would Never Do That.'

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Jessica Seinfeld Made A Toast. She Turned To The Assembled Guests. 'and You Are All So Lucky To Be Part Of Gwyneth's World. Because This Is The Real Deal. And She's Invited All Of You Good People In Here. I Would Never Do That.'

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If I'm Lucky, I Can Do A Facial Once A Month.

If You Carve Out What You Expect, That's How You End Up Getting Disappointed, Not Living Fully In The Present.

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.

Some Days I Feel Like Everyone In My World Has Plugged Themselves Into My Kidneys. I'm So Tired.

It's So Much Easier To Sit Home And Not Exercise And Criticize Other People. What I Love Is Inspiring People. People Come Up To Me And Say, 'i Want To Have Two Kids And Wear A Bathing Suit And Not Feel Terrible About Myself. I See How Hard You Work And It Makes Me Feel Like I Can Do That Too.'

I Definitely Don't Read Any Tabloids. You Really Have To Find A Way To Separate The Words Of People You Respect - Stranger Or Not, But Respectful Content, Positive Or Negative - And People Who Are Just In Pain And Projecting Their Own Sh*t Onto You.

I Try To Do One Thing At A Time To Utilise My Time Well.

It’s Much Harder For Me... I Think It’s Different When You Have An Office Job, Because It’s Routine And, You Know, You Can Do All The Stuff In The Morning And Then You Come Home In The Evening. When You’re Shooting A Movie, They’re Like, 'we Need You To Go To Wisconsin For Two Weeks,' And Then You Work 14 Hours A Day And That Part Of It Is Very Difficult. I Think To Have A Regular Job And Be A Mom Is Not As, Of Course There Are Challenges, But It’s Not Like Being On Set.

When I Pass A Flowering Zucchini Plant In A Garden, My Heart Skips A Beat.

There's A Portion Of The Movie Where Something Bad Happens To Me, And I Lose My Clothes Along The Way, So Essentially I'm Wearing A Bra And Trousers. There Are Certain Requirements, But Luckily I Have A Good Base Because I Work Out Often.

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.

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 Really Worry About The State Of The Planet And I Wish Everyone Would Make A Concerned Effort Not To Trash It.

I Cook And I Really Believe In The Family Dinner, I Think That's A Nice Time To Bring The Family Together.

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'm Not Great About Putting On Make-up, I Look Like A Wreck Half The Time.

If You Go In In The Morning And Have Had A Rough Night, Dunking Your Face In Ice Water Is Really Good.

I Use Omega-3 Oil. I Love Light Oil On My Skin. It's One Of My Favorite Feelings In The World.

I Think Part Of A Beauty Routine Is How You Feel And Checking In With Your Inner Self, And So I Made That Commitment To Myself To Do That.

I Don't Want To Be Rich And I Don't Want To Be Famous.

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.

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.

One Cold Wintry Day In London, I Was Dreaming About Salad Nicoise—one Of My Favorites.

For Me When I Was Growing Up, Some Of The Happiest Times Were When We Went To A Small Island Called Nantucket Off Massachusetts.

Jessica Seinfeld Made A Toast. She Turned To The Assembled Guests. 'and You Are All So Lucky To Be Part Of Gwyneth's World. Because This Is The Real Deal. And She's Invited All Of You Good People In Here. I Would Never Do That.'

I Try To Take Care Of My Hair Because It Sort Of Has To Withstand A Lot Of Blowdrying And Ironing.

Sometimes Harvey Weinstein Will Let Me Use The Miramax Jet If I'm Opening A Supermarket For Him.

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 Try To Avoid Barbecue Potato Chips. They're My Weakness.

I Think So Many People Give Us Ideas Of What We Are. I Think As Women Especially, Because We're Sensitive By Nature, We're More Vulnerable, We Absorb Other People's Ideas About What We're Supposed To Think Or Who We're Supposed To Be And How We're Supposed To Act.

I Try To Remember, As I Hear About Friends Getting Engaged, That It's Not About The Ring. It's A Grave Thing, Getting Married.

I Never Knew I Could Suffer So Much. And Then, At The Same Time, You Think, Now I'm Ready To Open Myself Up To Life In Another Way, To Make It Worth Something And Make It About The Right Things And Not Waste Time.

Beyoncé's Like, 'okay. The Singing Is Great. But You're Not Having Any Fun.' She's Like, 'remember When We Were At Jay's Concert And Panjabi Mc Comes On And You Do Your Crazy Indian Dance? Do That. Be You!'

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.

[when] You're Dying Laughing Because Your Three-year-old Made A Fart Joke, It Doesn't Matter What Else Is Going On. That's Real Happiness.

I Don't Mind Girls Or Boys. My Mother Gets Upset When I Say I Want All Girls Because Apple Is So Fabulous.

I Have A Sort Of Sisterly Feeling Toward Him [ben Affleck]. I Want Him To Do Well And Grow Up And Be A Happy Person And A Fully Realized Man.

I Wasn't The High-school Play Queen Or Anything. And My Parents Would Let Not Me Act Until I Graduated From College.

I Look For People Who Have A Slightly Different Perspective And Are Trying To Move The Needle A Little Bit And Push Boundaries.

My Father, He Was Like The Rock, The Guy You Went To With Every Problem.

I'm Always Interested In What's Next Or What Is The New Kind Of Thinking.

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.

I Say What I Think, And I Stand Behind What I Say.

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.

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 Cannot Go To Sleep With Dishes In The Sink.

I Really Like Where Tony Robbins Says That We're All Hypnotized To See Beauty This One Specific Way, And It's True.

My Playground Was The Theatre. I'd Sit And Watch My Mother Pretend For A Living. As A Young Girl, That's Pretty Seductive.

"just To Have My Kids Be In The Sun Every Day-picking Avocados, Going For A Swim," She Says. "even For Two Years Or Something, And Come Back When They Go To Senior School." Just What Kids Want To Do, Pick Avocados. Also: Senior School?

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.

My Actual Beauty Routine Is Pretty Simple, I Try And Have A Facial Once In A While. I'm Not A Huge Products Girl. I Have So Much Going On With Work And Kids, I Just Use Moisturiser Basically.

~i Think What Surprised Me The Most About Motherhood, As Sentimental As It Sounds, Is How Much I Love My Kids. I Mean, I Just Can't Believe It. It's Like A Whole New Dimension In Emotion That I've Never Experienced.~

When I Turned 40 I Thought, 'i Have To Really Make Sure I Have Time To Myself,' Because It's Very Overwhelming To Be Taking Care Of So Many People.

Is It Better Not To Drink Alcohol And Eat Fried Food And Not Have Cheese And Never Have A Cigarette At A Party? Of Course, But That's Just Not Life.

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.

I Really Am A Smoothie Person. I Love Making A Morning Smoothie And Then Will Drink Some Coffee And Will Not Eat At All Before Lunch.

I Don't Eat Four-legged Animals, But I Eat Birds, I Eat Cheese, I Eat Dessert. I Eat Everything.

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.

We Do Live In An Unsafe World. That's The Truth. I'm Dealing With That Now, With My Seven-year-old. He's Grappling With The Fact That The World Is Unsafe, And That There Are People Who Do Harmful Things. I Don't Think There's Anything Wrong With Presenting That Idea. We Can't Lie To Our Children And Pretend That The World Is Perfect, And Everybody's Happy, And Everybody's Out There To Do Good. It's Just Part Of A Bigger Conversation.

You Know, I Use Organic Products, But I Get [laser Treatments]. It's What Makes Life Interesting, Finding The Balance Between Cigarettes And Tofu.

Having Survived Her 10th London Winter (she Got Through January By Assigning It "international Month," And Amusing Moses And His Big Sister, Apple, 9, With A Visiting Italian Chef, Japanese Anime Screenings, And Hand-rolled-sushi Lessons, No Less), Paltrow Admits That Her Dreams Of Relocating The Family To Their Recently Acquired Residence In Brentwood, California, Are Becoming Ever More Urgent.

In My 20s Because I Was Working On Films So Much And Travelling So Much And Doing Press, I Was Single With No Kids And I Think That's The Time When Not Only Are You Trying On Looks, But You're Trying On Personalities - You're Still Really Forming.

Religion Is The Cause Of All The Problems In The World. I Don’t Believe In Organized Religion At All. It’s What Separates People. One Religion Just Represents Fragments, It Causes War. More People Have Died Because Of Religious Conflict Than Any Other Reason.

Because I Was Newly Pregnant, I Was Sick As A Dog, Yet I Knew All My Lines From A Year Before.

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.

Doubt, Not Self-reflection, Comes From A Destructive Energy, And When It Rears Its Head, I Talk To It Like A Lunatic.

Our Marriage Is Between Us. If We Decide To Continue Being Together Or Not, It's Our Business.

We Feel It's Unacceptable To Be Fat, When It Has Nothing To Do With Who The Person Actually Is.

Occasionally I'll Come Across Something That's Just Annoying, But For The Most Part It's Irrelevant To Me.

I'm Just Like Any Other Regular Mum; Cooking, Cleaning, Wiping Butts, Picking Up After Kids, Being A Wife And Helping The Kids With Their Homework. Mind You, I'm Terrible At Maths. I Can't Even Do My Six-year-old's Maths Homework With Her.

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 Was Very Much A Tomboy For A Long Time, But As I Start To Get Older, I Realize I Better Actually Try To Preserve What I Have And I Better Be A Little Conscientious About My Regime.

Why I Enjoyed Doing Iron Man Because It Opened Me Up To This New World Where Fans Are So Passionate.

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.

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.

I Personally Think Fitness Is A Very Important Part Of Skincare And Overall Health And Wellness And Beauty. I Think That The Skin Is Our Largest Organ.

People Who Are Criticizing... Don't Really Get It, Because If They Did, They Would Like It.

We Have Always Conducted Our Relationship Privately, And We Hope That As We Consciously Uncouple And Coparent, We Will Be Able To Continue In The Same Manner.

To Be A Woman In Your Forties, I Think It's A Fantastic Decade.

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.

One Year I Was Given A Birthday Present I'll Never Forget - A Cooking Lesson From Jamie Oliver.

I Like To Dry Brush Which Is Really Detoxifying For The Skin. Exercise Is Also Really Important For Me For Balance And To Get Those Endorphins Going.

My Hair Is Pretty Wavy. And It's Coarse And Color-treated So I'm Big On Conditioner And Conditioning Masks.

[moses] Is Obsessed With Hip-hop And Wanted A Gold Chain Like His Uncle Jay-z.

I'll Never Forget It. I Was Starting To Hike Up The Red Rocks, And Honestly, It Was As If I Heard The Rock Say, 'you Have The Answers. You Are Your Teacher.' I Thought I Was Having An Auditory Hallucination.

I Know People That I Respect And Admire And Look Up To Who Have Had Extra-marital Affairs.

I'm Not Sure How Healthy Bacon Is In General, But I Know It's Incredibly Delicious.

I Started Boxing One Day A Week To Experience Aggression, Which Has Been Really Interesting.

The Older I Get, The More Open-minded I Get, The Less Judgmental I Get.

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.

I Would Be Scared To Go Under The Knife, But You Know, Talk To Me When I'm 50. I'll Try Anything. Except I Won't Do Botox Again, Because I Looked Crazy. I Looked Like Joan Rivers!

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.

If I Have My Daughter In The Car And They Are Making Me Nervous, I'll Do Whatever I Have To Do. I Keep A Whole Log. I Take Pictures Of Their Cars, Write Down License Plate Numbers, Everything. If They Do It Again, I Can Go To The Police. I Know My Rights And, Believe Me, I Will Have Them Arrested. I Will Stop At Nothing.

As I Absorbed Life Here And Understood It Better, I Just Completely Fell In Love With England.

I Realised Life Is So Short And Precious, You Should Do Things That Make You Feel Inspired, That Push You And Teach You Something. I'd Rather Not Have A Big House, A Huge Closet Of Clothes, Diamonds And A Private Plane, And Instead A Body Of Work That I'm Proud Of.

When I Was Pregnant, I Couldn't Wear Fragrance. I Couldn't Smell Anything. I Couldn't Smell Flowers, I Was Very Sensitive To Everything. I Could Smell Orange Juice From Across The Room And I Remember Thinking, 'i Will Throw Up.'

When I Was Twenty-one, A Friend Gave Me A Book Called Diet For A New America By John Robbins, Which Exposed The Brutal Practices Of American Factory Farms. That, Coupled With A Lecture From Leonardo Dicaprio (when He Was Nineteen And I Was Twenty-one) About How Such Animals Are Kept And Processed, Made Me Lose My Desire For Factory Farm Pork And Beef Right There.

I Was A Fool. I Had No Idea What I Was Getting Myself Into. But I Have To Say, It's Been Incredibly Rewarding And I Learn So Much Every Day.

The Best Way To Mend A Broken Heart Is Time And Girlfriends.

We're Human Beings And The Sun Is The Sun - How Can It Be Bad For You? I Don't Think Anything That's Natural Can Be Bad For You.

You're Not Learning Anything Unless You're Having The Difficult Conversations.

Difficult Conversations

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.

Physically, It Completely Changed Me. I Found Strength That I Never Thought I Had. And Mentally, I Mean, It's Taught Me Just Patience And Letting Go, And It's Really Changed My Whole Psychological Outlook, I Think.

They Love A Brown Rice Stir-fry, But They Also Love Their 'coke Of The Week'...my Daughter Gravitates Toward Fresh Fruit And Raw Nuts But Will Inhale A Bag Of Hot Cheetos At The Airport. It's All About Balance.

Sometimes When Things You Love Get Really Commercial, You End Up Feeling Betrayed By It.

People Have Become Inappropriate. People Have Pushed Too Far. People Have Climbed One Too Many Fences. I'm Just Tired Of It.

My Drive Is Something That I Don't Fully Understand.

I Am Convinced That By Eating Biological Foods It Is Possible To Avoid A Tumor.

During The Strict Macrobiotic Chapter Of My Life, I Ate Miso Soup Every Day For Breakfast And Sometimes With Dinner As Well.

By 40, All Women Are Amazing.

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.

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.

Beauty Fades! I Just Turned 29, So I Probably Don't Have That Many Good Years Left In Me.

It Is Finally When You Let Go Of What People Expect You To Be And People's Perceptions Of You That You're Able To Be The Version Of Yourself That You're Supposed To Be - Like In God's Eyes. It Doesn't Matter If You're Half Crazy, Or Eccentric, Or Whatever It Is - That You Have To Be True To Who You Were Born To Be.

I Love Men, Even Though They're Lying, Cheating Scumbags.

I Don't Really Understand The Concept Of Having A Career, Or What Agents Mean When They Say They're Building One For You. I Just Do Things I Think Will Be Interesting And That Have Integrity. I Hate Those Tacky, Pointless, Big, Fluffy, Unimportant Movies.

I Really Wanted My Creams To Feel Luxurious And Have A Beautiful Finish, And It's Harder To Do That With Natural Ingredients.

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 ... My Hope Is, As We Get Out Of It, We'll Reach The Next Level Of Conscience.

Cameron Diaz Is Probably My Biggest Beauty Mentor Of My Friends. She Knows How To Do Her Own Hair And Makeup; She's Really Good At It.

The Jewish Part Of Me Is Superstitious.

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.

My Perfect Plan Is To Do One Movie Every Nine Months.

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 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.

Beauty, To Me Is About Being Comfortable In Your Own Skin.

Be Really, Really True To Yourself. That To Me, Has Been Key To Me In Understanding How I Want To Live The Second Half Of My Life.

Unfortunately, Most Products Are Full Of Plastic And Silicones And Parabens And Things That Are Really Not Good For Us But They Give That Silky Finish.

As You Go Through Life You Realize That The Love That You Have For The People In Your Life And Their Love For You Is All That Matters. It's Really About How You Regard Them And How They Regard You.

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 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 Adrenaline Of A Live Performance Is Unlike Anything In Film Or Theater. I Can See Why It's So Addictive.

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 To Cook And Feed People. I Cook Every Day.

I Basically Love Anything That Comes In A Hot Dog Bun... Except Hot Dogs.

Invest In What's Real. Clean As You Go. Drink While You Cook. Make It Fun. It Doesn't Have To Be Complicated. It Will Be What It Will Be.

I Think The Most Clear, Direct Way To Empowerment Is To Really Know Yourself And To Really Use Your Voice And To Not Be Afraid Of Other People's Reactions.

I Try To Do Things Where I'm Going To Feel Challenged In Some Way. I Only Really Do One Movie A Year.

Some Really Famous People, Even When They're Off-duty, Have This Energy That Is Sort Of Overpowering.

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.

Whenever I See 'dirty Rotten Scoundrels', A Total Comedy Classic, I Get The Urge To Feel The Breeze Of The South Of France In The Summer!

I Try As Best I Can To Really Put All I Can Into What I'm Doing. A Lot Of Days I Fail And There's Too Much To Do. I Do Think It's Really Important To Have Time To Yourself, Whether That's Reading Something Interesting When The Kids Are In Bed Or Even Having A Dog.

If I Could Just Walk Around And Light The Candles With My Finger, That Would Be Kind Of Cool.

The Work Gets More Difficult As You Get Older. You Learn More And You Gather More Experiences, There Is Deeper Pain And Higher Highs.

It's Really Hard To Find Things That Are Worth Leaving Them For. [balancing Work And Motherhood Is] Really Hard. One Night In Nashville, My Son Was Screaming With A Terrible Stomachache. I Was Like, 'i Have To Get Out Of Here!' But We Had To Finish. My Friend Jenno, A Mother Of Three Who Was Producing, Was Great, Reminding Me That Nine Times Out Of 10, They Just Have Gas.

There Are Makeup Artists Sometimes That Have A Jade Face Roller. If You're Really Tired Those Are Really Good.

I Don't Know Who Decided That Skinny Was More Appealing Than Not Skinny. It Seems Arbitrary.

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.

The Simpler Things Are, The Happier They Are.

I Don't Hold On To Fear As Much As I Used To, Because I've Learned A Lot About Genuinely Not Caring What Strangers Think About Me. It's Very Liberating. It's Very Empowering, And I've Learned A Lot Of That From Jay-shawn Carter-z, Because His Approach To Life Is Very Internal. It's A Very Good Lesson To Learn.

When You're So Out There In The Public Eye, People Are Constantly Criticizing Every Aspect About You.

If You Have A Very Hot Experience Then Shock Yourself With Cold Water, It's Very Very Good For The Nervous System.

You'll Never Be Happy If You Can't Figure Out That Loving People Is All There Is. And That It's More Important To Love Than Be Loved. Because That Is When You Feel Love, By Loving Somebody.

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 Think The Most Important Beauty Lesson I've Learned From My Mom Is To Be Happy In What You Do.

My Dad Always Said He Couldn't Remember A Time When I Did Not Want To Act.

I Really Don't Like Drunk Women; I Think It Is Such A Bad Look. I Think It's Very Inappropriate And I Don't Like It. I Don't Really Have Drunk Friends.

Some Days I Feel Like Everyone In My World Has Plugged Themselves Into My Kidney. I'm So Tired. But When You're Having Dinner With Your Kids And Your Husband And Someone Says Something Funny Or You're Dying Laughing Because Your Three-year-old Made A Fart Joke, It Doesn't Matter What Else Is Going On. That's Real Happiess.

I'm Able To Be A Normal Mom For The Most Part. I'm In [clothing Store] Brandy Melville Like All The Other Moms.

I Used To Say To My Dad, 'how Did You And Mom Stay Married For All This Time?' And He'd Say, 'two Things. Number One: You Gotta Have The Same Dreams. One Person Can't Be Daydreaming About Walking Down The Street In Paris, The Other Person Want To Work In A Coal Mine. Number Two: We Never Wanted To Get Divorced At The Same Time.'

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.

On Daughter Apple's Accent: She 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.

I'm A Real Blue Jeans Girl, I Wear Jeans All The Time And I Couldn't Live Without Them. Jeans And Blazers.

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.

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'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.

I Made A Pact With Myself That I'd Rather Have Less Money Than Be Embarrassed.

He [chris Martin] Can't Have Background Music On. It Has To Be 100 percent Of His Attention. But If He Isn't At Home, I Turn On The Hip-hop. I'm Like A Bad Mutha Rapping Along To Every Word As I Cook.

It Is With Hearts Full Of Sadness That We Have Decided To Separate.

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.

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.

I Personally Believe In Some Sort Of Divine Order - Or Energy. I Do Believe That Everything Happens For A Reason. I Do Think That When Something Bad Happens To Someone It's With The Purpose Of Awakening Them. I Do Think There Is Some Force Behind That. I Don't Think There Are Accidents.

You Can Call Me A Lot Of Things, But You Can't Call Me Complacent!

I'm A Bit Traditional In The Way That I Think That A Woman Draws Her Energy From The House. Food Is A Really Nice Way Of Expressing That Energy And Love, And Doing Something With Care And Putting Time Into It And Nourishing Your Family.

We’ve Been Married For More Than Eight Years Now And We’re Still Into It. I Think You Do Fall In And Out Of Love And You Just Keep Going, And Every Time You Go Through A Really Difficult Phase, You Rediscover Something New And It Just Gets Better.

I Cannot Function If There Is A Physical Mess Around Me. If Everything Is Falling Apart, I Go On A Cleaning Frenzy.

She's French, So She's Teaching Them French, And Their Previous Nanny Was Spanish, So They're Fluent In Spanish.

I Do Really Believe That Beauty Comes From Within, Mostly How You Feel About Yourself And How You Express Love Of Yourself, But Also In The Form Of Nutrition.

I'll Take My Wrinkles. I Don't Like The Botox Thing.

You Have To Know Why You're Rushing About. It's Ok To Rush About But It's Important To Know What's Driving You, The Positives Of It And The Negatives Of It.

I'm Looking Forward To Becoming Older And Quieter.

Looking Forward

I Think My Days Of Trying Outrageous Things Are Over. I'm Not Looking For Trends, I Just Want To Be The Best Version Of Myself.

I've Learned So Much From Being A Mom About The Kind Of Person I Want To Be, The Kind Of Woman I Want To Be. Motherhood Has Taught Me Mindfulness. If You Just Parent On Instinct, You'll Screw Your Kid Up For Life. You Have To Be So Mindful.

When We’re Home Sometimes, She’ll Put On Mascara. And Sometimes I’ll Let Her Wear Something Out To Dinner – But Just A Little Dab. Also Having A Father Who Adores You The Way That He Adores Her Is Very Good For Your Body Image. The More We Can Love Her And Let Her Be Who She Is, The More Confident She’ll Feel.

I Would Rather Die Than Let My Kid Eat Cup-a-soup.

I Don't Have Time To Devote To Putting Outfits Together Before Picking Up The Kids. I'm A Creature Of Habit And In That Way, I Tend To Just Go Towards What Works For Me And What's Comfortable. It's Really Important To Be Comfortable When You're Running Around After Kids.

I Have A Very Highly Developed Sense Of Denial.

When I Was Starting Out, I Would Get Printouts Of What Was Being Written About Me That Week. At First It Was All Good Things, And Then It Started To Turn. I Very Quickly Learned, "this Isn't Good, This Isn't Helping Me." But It Was A Very Important Exercise For Me In Terms Of Really Understanding That One's Sense Of Self Is Internal. I Have Had An Extreme Opportunity To Learn That Lesson, And I Think It's Been Such A Blessed Fortune.

There Have Been Countless Times Where I've Worked Out With My Kids Crawling Around All Over The Place. You Just Make It Work.

Mornings And Afternoons Are My Family Time And I'm Lucky That I Can Drop The Kids Off At School, I Don't Have To Be At The Office Or Anything.

After I Had The Kids, I Took A Break From Work, And All My Creativity Went Into My Kitchen. I Like Experimenting.

I'm Just A Normal Mother With The Same Struggles As Any Other Mother Who's Trying To Do Everything At Once And Trying To Be A Wife And Maintain A Relationship. There's Absolutely Nothing Perfect About My Life, But I Just Try Hard.

I've Learned A Lot About Genuinely Not Caring What Strangers Think About Me. It's Very Liberating.

I Don't Eat Red Meat, But Sometimes A Man Needs A Steak.

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.

I Don't Fit Into The Bad Side Of American Psychology. The British Are Much More Intelligent And Civilized Than The Americans.

I Believe In Holistic Medicine, Yoga, Pilates And So On. But I Also Believe In Banana Split Sundaes Once In A While.

I Think That The Process Of Figuring Out What Kind Of Leader I Wanted To Be Was Challenging, Because As An Actor, You Work Alone, Really.

I'm Never Going Again On Met Gala. It Was So Un-fun. It Was Boiling. It Was Too Crowded. I Did Not Enjoy It At All.

My One Light American Spirit That I Smoke Once A Week, On Saturday Night.

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.

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