There are certain women in this business who have children and I just think, "You must never, never see them!" You can`t do movies back to back and see your child if they go to school.
I worked so much in my 20s and I really burnt the candle at both ends. I wasn`t too picky about what I did and I was lucky that I did some really good films, but I also did some really rubbish films, I think part of the downside about being so successful ...
[On her father`s (Bruce Paltrow`s) struggle with throat cancer]: 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.
It would be a lot easier on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston now had they not talked to the press about each other and everything to begin with. I learned my lesson at 24.
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.
There are certain women in this business who have children and I just think, "You must never, never see them!" You can`t do movies back to back and see your child if they go to school.
