"I have a dream version where I think, maybe in four years I'll have two in a row really quickly again - how fabulous to have a whole bunch of them!" she says. "But then at that point, when everyone's potty-trained and sleeping through the night, are you really going to go back?"

Paltrow, who won a best-actress Oscar for 1998's "Shakespeare in Love," had small roles in last year's "Running With Scissors" and "Infamous."

Her upcoming films include "The Good Night," directed by her brother, Jake Paltrow, and "Iron Man," co-starring Robert Downey Jr.