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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.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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Gwyneth Paltrow
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 27
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
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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.
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Why I enjoyed doing Iron Man because it opened me up to this new world where fans are so passionate.
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For the most part, I try to be healthy and eat good things, but if you give me a baguette and some Camembert, I'm gonna eat it.
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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.
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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.
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I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.
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I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.
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Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
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My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
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One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.
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I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.
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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.
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I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.
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