Quotes from Uma Thurman

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

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

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

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.

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.

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.

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

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

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

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

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

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

I think that life force is invaluable.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

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 was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

I still love the people I've loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

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

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.