Quotes from Uma Thurman

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

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

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

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 guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

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.

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.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.

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 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'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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.