Gwyneth Paltrow

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.

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 adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

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 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.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.