Gwyneth Paltrow have her own acting techniques

Gwyneth Paltrow says following her instincts and listening to her mother taught her how to act.

Speaking at the Spence School last week, the Iron Man star whose mom is Hollywood legend Blythe Danner told students she has no training beyond what she learned there.

“I studied drama here, but I didn’t study it past being at Spence … My mother … has done a lot of stage work. I got a great education from her … and growing up here where I went to the theater all the time,” she said.

“I’ve developed my own technique, but the most important thing is your instincts.”

Paltrow who has two children, daughter Apple, seven, and five-year-old son Moses, with husband Chris Martin recently admitted she stopped caring about acting when she had children.

“When I first had my kids, I just didn’t want to be anywhere else,” she said. “Now they are older, I feel my sense of self coming back as an artist. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to get good parts later in my life like Meryl Streep. But still I’ve starred in a lot of great films and won a lot of great awards.”