Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the "extra" buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean the room when I get up, even the bathroom mirror, for which I carry a tiny bottle of ammonia.

I can't leave anywhere without making my bed; it's ingrained.

I'm very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy. I'm obsessive compulsive. I don't mind admitting it.

I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.

I can't stand things being out of place.

I'm known as tidy, I like to keep my stuff in order.

It's very clean in our house.

I have a neat and tidy bed when I reach home but a cluttered one by the time I leave.

My father would get up with his plate after dinner and keep it where it was supposed to be kept. He wouldn't leave the plate for my mom to pick up.

I don't like to see mess.

I feel like everything's got to be neat and everything's got to be right before I put on my performance, so I brush my hair.

I'm a neat freak.

I love cleaning and hanging things up!

I do ironing not only for myself but for everyone at home, everyone in the studio if they want it, and if I run out of ironing to do, I put everything back in the washing machine and get it out again clean so I have some ironing to do.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.