Letterman transcript, Jan. 7, 2002
DL - David Letterman
GP - Gwyneth Paltrow

DL: "Are you still smoking? I saw that movie and you're smokin' in that movie
like you're nuts. You're constantly smoking in 'The Royal Tenenbaums'."

GP: "I know. I know. No, I'm not smoking, but I have to say it was great to
have an excuse to smoke for six weeks."

DL: "Oh, really?"

GP: "Yeah. Umm. It's such a gross habit, but I just couldn't... I was just so
excited like, 'Oh, I get to smoke. This is so exciting,' but then it kind of
made me sick after a while."

DL: "Had you smoked before?"

GP: "Well, I smoked until I was twenty-four, and then I quit..."

DL: "Right."

GP: "and then I had had, you know, a cigarette here and there, and then I had
really stopped. And then, when I did the movie, I hadn't smoked in a long
time.  So I was smoking these unfiltered cigarettes that's...  and you know,
when you go in in the movies at seven o'clock in the morning and light one
up, and it's one after another, so my romance with it waned rather quickly."

DL: "Yeah. Yeah. So then you had, had no problem giving it up at the end of
the film?"

GP: "No. I just umm, you know, sort of indulged myself with a cigarette while
I was shooting since I thought, 'Well, I'm smoking anyway'. "

DL: "That's right. I'll be done here in six weeks. Who cares?"

GP: "Right. Exactly."