Uma Thurman

“I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.”

“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.”

“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”

“When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.”

“And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.”

“Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.”

“We never left a set until we'd trashed it.”

“I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.”

“I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.”

“I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.”

“But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.”

“I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.”

“I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.”

“So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.”

“Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.”

“I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.”

“And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.”

“I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.”

“There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.”

“Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.”