Quotes from Uma Thurman

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.

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.

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

I don't feel famous.

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

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

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

It is technically a failure when you don't try.

To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.