Blythe Danner Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
2nd December 2015
Quote: "I think that it's extraordinary. I think it works, I've seen it in action... I've had many young women come up to me and say, 'I wish that I had this when I was going through divorce'." Blythe Danner insists her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow's 'conscious uncoupling' from ex-husband Chris Martin is a success.
13th May 2015
Quote: "I know that she's the most extraordinary girl who can do everything. Incredible mother! She's raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for my husband's oral cancer foundation - things she doesn't talk about a lot. She's becoming a great environmentalist. I'm so proud of her. I think she's so accomplished that people get kind of intimidated by it. Great cook, great mum, great actress." Veteran star Blythe Danner defends her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow against critics.
28th November 2013
Quote: "It (the criticism) doesn't faze her. I think it probably did initially. She said, 'Mom, I'm going to get this all my life. This is how they see me.' I feel she's just extraordinarily accomplished in every area and people don't like that... people who are bored and sit on their a**es all day and just tap away... I don't read any of it, I just find it so disgusting." Gwyneth Paltrow's actress mother Blythe Danner can't understand why her daughter receives so much criticism from the public.
13th September 2013
Fact: Gwyneth Paltrow and Stella Mccartney recently hosted a star-studded "English garden party" in The Hamptons, New York, to launch their new fashion collaboration. The designer's dad Sir Paul McCartney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz, Paltrow's husband Chris Martin and mum Blythe Danner were among the guests celebrating the new Stella MCCartney x Goop collection, which is available on the actress' Goop.com website.
24th April 2013
Quote: "I can't stand the bad press Gwyneth gets. I don't read a word of it because it's all garbage and bulls**t. It's just frustrated people sitting on their hands. Why aren't they out helping feed the homeless?" Actress Blythe Danner hates to read negative reports about her daughter Gwyneth Paltrow, who regularly comes under fire for her strict eating habits and for promoting expensive products.
8th November 2012
Fact: Actress Blythe Danner is returning to Broadway to play Matthew Broderick's mother in the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It. Danner will begin her 12-week stint on 18 December (12).
19th April 2012
Quote: "I'd like to die on stage. That would be a good death for me. Fall over, be done with it. Who wants to suffer for a long period of time?" Gwyneth Paltrow's actress mum Blythe Danner hopes she's working when she dies.
6th April 2012
Quote: "One of the most famous ones - which I weep to every time I hear it - is 'Fix You'. He wrote that for Gwyneth when her father Bruce died - he missed meeting Bruce by a couple of weeks." Gwyneth Paltrow's mum Blythe Danner cries every time she hears her son-in-law Chris Martin's track Fix You, which he wrote after the death of the actress' father in 2002.
19th December 2010
Quote: "His mouth kind of curls up. He shakes, and doesn't make a noise." Actress Blythe Danner loved to see Robert De Niro laugh while filming new comedy LITTLE FOCKERS.
21st March 2009
Quote: "I havent contributed... I know that Gwynnies going to have some family recipes in her next newsletter. Im an avid reader. I love it." Gwyneth Paltrow's actress mother Blythe Danner is a big fan of the IRON MAN star's healthy living website Goop.com.
27th January 2009
Quote: GWYNETH has got something like 800 people that have joined. I hope I can get a membership! I havent seen it yet, but its going to be gorgeous for sure - just like Gwyneths style. Actress Blythe Danner on her famous daughter Gwyneth Paltrow's posh taste for her exclusive up-and-coming New York gym.
25th September 2008
Quote: "There's something in the musicality of their world. It's not just what they do, but their rhythm, the way they are together." Gwyneth Paltrow's mother, Blythe Danner, is a fan of her son-in-law Chris Martin's band Coldplay.
18th October 2006
Quote: "Perhaps we should go back and have Blythe Danner's character get trampled by a yak and Tom Wilkinson's character get kicked in the nuts." Zach Braff reflects on his new film The Last Kiss being soundly beaten at the US Box Office by JACKASS 2.
1st April 2006
Fact: Gwyneth Paltrow's actress mother Blythe Danner dated comedian Chevy Chase when she was in college in the 1960s.
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