No filter? Gwyneth Paltrow has never been afraid to speak her mind, even if what she says turns a few heads.
After breaking onto the Hollywood scene in 1989 with High — which she followed up with 1991’s Hook— the actress quickly rose to fame. With that success, Paltrow chose to use her platform to be vocal about a variety of topics.
The Goop founder has been consistent in speaking her truth when sharing her beliefs, including her thoughts on drinking and dinner parties.
“I don’t really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink,” the Shakespeare in Love actress told the Guardian in January 2006. “But they hold their liquor. I think it’s incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading.”
Paltrow was also honest about her idea of what types of foods are good and which ones should be avoided at all costs.
“I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin,” the Clean Plate author said at the iTunes Festival in July 2011. Five years later, Paltrow doubled down on her cheese comment in a Goop article, saying, “You know, crack might be extreme, but spray cheese is not my kind of party.”
The Country Strong star’s remarks don’t stop with food. Paltrow has spoken out about her relationship with ex-husband Chris Martin and husband Brad Falchuk on multiple occasions. (She also dated actors including Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Luke Wilson in the past.)
“I’ve f—ked up so many relationships. So many,” she said on an August 2017 episode of Girlbosss Radio. “I’m actually a pretty good friend and a good sister and a daughter and a mother, but I am at my potentially most vulnerable and f—ked up in the romantic slice of the pie. So it’s taken me a lot of work to get to the place where I have a good romantic relationship.”
The Politician actress has come under fire at times for her candid disclosures, many of which involve the topics of wealth and status, but she’s never looked back.
“I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year,” she told Elle UK in March 2009.
Five years later, the It’s All Easy author claimed that working as an actress and a mother is “much harder” than having a “regular job” and being a parent.
Scroll down for a look at some of Paltrow’s most outrageous and obnoxious quotes through the years.
"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
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"I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup."
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"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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"I don't really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it's incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year."
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"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."
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"I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs (sorry, Dad)."
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"When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."
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"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."
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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'd rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin."
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"I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extramarital affairs."
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"When you go to Paris and your concierge sends you to some restaurant because they get a kickback, it's like, 'No. Where should I really be? Where is the great bar with organic wine? Where do I get a bikini wax in Paris?'"
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"I fly all the time. Like, all the time. And I've gotten pretty good at it."
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[On what she would want for her last meal]: "Oysters and cocktail sauce, and then a baked, stuffed lobster and french fries. I would have a baguette and a cheese course for my dessert, and red wine. I drank like crazy [when the kids were babies]. How else could I get through my day?"
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"I feel a sisterhood emerging around me. I'm less threatening now that I'm 40 and not 26-with-an-Oscar. There's a sense of love and support."
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"I said, 'You know, [my butt] isn't so bad for 40, right?' And [my friend] goes, 'It's not so bad for a 22-year-old stripper!'"
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"I've lived in England for 10 years and the accent is the most beautiful in the world, except for how you pronounce 'pasta' as 'pasta' instead of 'pah-sta.' I'm sort of joking when I say this but I really don't want my children speaking that way."
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"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."
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"I don't hold onto 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."
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"Just to have my kids be in the sun every day — picking avocados, going for a swim. Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school."
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"[Miranda Kerr] was wearing a black Michael Kors dress that was sort of like a sparkling bandeau, and her whole stomach was showing. It was really beautiful. It was a little punk-y. She's just so pretty, it's abnormal. I was like, 'Is it weird to be that pretty?'"
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"Do you want me to be honest? [The Met Gala] sucked. It seems like it's the best thing in the world, you always think, 'Oh my god, it's gonna be so glamorous and amazing and you're going to see all these people,' and then you get there and it's so hot and it's so crowded and everyone's pushing you."
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"We're human beings and the sun is the sun — how can it be bad for you? I think we should all get sun and fresh air. I don't think anything that is natural can be bad for you — it's really good to have at least 15 minutes of sun a day."
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"It's much harder for me — 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."
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"We have always conducted our relationship privately and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner."
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"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. My hope is, as we get out of it, we’ll reach the next level of conscience."
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"A few weeks ago during an interview, I was asked why I have only worked on one film a year since having children. My answer was this: Film work takes one away from home and requires 12-14 hours a day, making it difficult to be the one to make the kids their lunch, drive them to school, and put them to bed. So I have found it easier on my family life to make a film the exception, and my 9-5 job the rule. This somehow was taken to mean I had said a 9-5 job is easier, and a lot of heat was thrown my way, especially by other working mothers who somehow used my out-of-context quote as an opportunity to express feelings (perhaps projected) on the subject. As the mommy wars rage on, I am constantly perplexed and amazed by how little slack we cut each other as women."
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"I am fascinated by the growing science behind the energy of consciousness and its effects on matter. I have long had Dr. Emoto's coffee table book on how negativity changes the structure of water, how the molecules behave differently depending on the words or music being expressed around it."
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"My books are No. 1 New York Times best sellers, my website is growing every day and is very successful. If people who know me and love me have a criticism, then I really want to hear it. But if not, it’s just a projection, like I’m a screen, and it’s not about me, so I don’t absorb it."
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"I'm incredibly close to the common woman in that I'm a woman and I'm a mother. We all are in a physical body with beating hearts, with compassion and love. We are all seekers, we all want questions, we all want fulfillment, we want to live our best lives. We want to be healthy and happy and squeeze the most that we can out of life. I think that's all women."
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"We took some investment last year, so as soon as we had other people's money, I realized I really better focus on this completely. I'll return to acting probably, but probably not right now.”
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“You know, crack might be extreme, but spray cheese is not my kind of party.”
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"The first time I tried v-steaming, I was like, 'This is insane.’ My friend Ben brought me and I was like, 'You are out of your f--king mind. What is this?'”
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“[My readers] are not without judgment. When you’re at the forefront of something that’s new, people can get really reactive: ‘This is crazy! Why are you doing this?’ Then, five years later, everyone’s fine with it. So I have a bit of pattern recognition in hand at this point — which is helpful,” Paltrow said. “Also, when someone doesn’t like something you do, or doesn’t share your interest in something, that doesn’t have anything to do with you.”
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“I’ve f—ked up so many relationships. So many,” she said. “I’m actually a pretty good friend and a good sister and a daughter and a mother, but I am at my potentially most vulnerable and f—ked up in the romantic slice of the pie. So it’s taken me a lot of work to get to the place where I have a good romantic relationship.”
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“That was the beginning of people thinking I was a crackpot. Like, ‘What do you mean food can affect your health, you f—king psycho?” Paltrow said of the 2008 launch of her lifestyle blog Goop. “I remember when I started doing yoga and people were like, ‘What is yoga? She’s a witch. She’s a freak.’”
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"The press was super negative and there were personal attacks about what I was feeding my children and what kind of mother I am. Now the gluten-free market is huge."
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“[Parenting teenagers] is the best. They’re really coming into themselves. They’re hilarious. They’re smart. They can talk. They can sort of muse about things — it’s the greatest. Yeah, they can be kind of, you know, d--ks once in a while.”
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“I met Sheryl before I met you,” Paltrow told Rob Lowe of his wife, Sheryl Berkoff. “I met the Mrs. Lowe when I was 15 or 16. I met Sheryl and I was immediately obsessed with her. First of all, she was dating Keanu Reeves, who was my celebrity crush. And she was so cool.” The Goop founder recalled Berkoff knowing that she was “sneaking cigarettes, and she would come smoke with me behind the trailer [and] she taught me how to give a b--wjob, and you know, all the classic Sheryl stuff. I just worshipped her. I thought she was literally the coolest chick of all time, and she was so awesome to me and I was a high school kid.”
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After releasing the “This Smells Like My Vagina” and “This Smells Like My Orgasm” candles on Goop, Paltrow told Elle in September 2020 that she “really wants” to release one called, “This Smells Like My WAP” but added, “nobody seems to think it’s a good idea but me.” The cookbook author continued by saying that she thinks Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s explicit “WAP” track and her company’s sexually inspired candles are “all part of crumbling patriarchy” and there should be more of it.
“I think that we're all changing it by releasing, like, a punk rock, feminist candle and Cardi B is changing it by her incredible lyrical prowess. You have to push, you have to go too far,” she explained. “You have to have a ‘WAP’ song or a ‘Smells Like My Vagina’ candle so people are like, ‘What is this?’ And they freak out. And then the center moves a little bit more this way. It's a process that happens over time. But women, especially my generation, and my mother's generation, we were raised to feel so uncomfortable with ourselves and it's bulls--t. It's not cool. We have to be integrated and love ourselves, love every part and integrate all of the parts of ourselves. So I think it's a good part of the process.”
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