NEW YORK - Gwyneth Paltrow, on hiatus from acting for more than two years, is ready to get back to work.

 

"For a long time, I thought, `I've done it. I've done what I wanted to do. I'm not interested. I just want to be home with my family,'" the 33-year-old actress tells Harper's Bazaar in its September issue, on newsstands Tuesday. "I had no spark for work, but I feel the feeling back. And I'm excited about the prospect. I want to do something kind of fun. I don't want to do anything depressing or mad. I want to do a really great, funny, weird character."

 

Paltrow, who won a best actress Oscar for 1998's "Shakespeare in Love," stars in "Running With Scissors," based on Augusten Burroughs' best-selling memoir. The film opens Oct. 11.

 

She has a 2-year-old daughter, Apple, and 4-month-old son, Moses, with husband Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay.

 

For Paltrow, parenting is "a total joy" - and a major time commitment.

 

"I do not know how single mothers have more than one child with no help," she tells the magazine. "It requires so much of my life, and I don't have to change sheets and clean toilets, you know."

 

Paltrow doesn't read celebrity tabloids, and says the family's home in London helps them avoid the paparazzi. "We have a gate and a car. It's easier to control it a bit more. I just hope the whole paparazzi thing continues in the way it's been going, which is with less interest in people like me and more interest in people like Nicole Richie - who I think is an excellent dresser, by the way," Paltrow says.

 

"She's supercute. It's really fair that the press attention goes to those who want it and court it. I think that's great."

 

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Interesting read, thanks! I always like her movies.