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.
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.
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.
Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
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.
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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 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.
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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 would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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.
It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Uma has revealed she is scared of closed spaces and that in the Kill Bill 2 scene where she was buried alive, she found the experience "horrific".
Uma Thurman recently started showing her emotions in public again after a period of being afraid to do so because of possible press consequences.
Uma suffered a public humiliation in August 2003, when her husband, Ethan Hawk, was observed with Canadian model Jen Perzow. This lead to the end of Uma and Ethans marriage.
Uma married Ethan Hawk in New York's Cathedral of St John the Divine in 1998. Their union was blessed by the
When she was 10 years old, one of her mother's friends suggested that Uma should get a nose job.
Her astrological sign is Taurus.
Uma gave birth to her second child in 2002.
Uma lived for extended periods in India with her family when she was growing up.
Tarantino really wanted her to star in his Kill Bill movies, so he put the whole thing on hold until Uma was finished with her pregnancy.
She's cast as a voice in the 2007 movie Bee Movie
Uma has worked with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp FIction and the two Kill Bill movies.
She has a daughter, Maya Ray, with Ethan Hawk.
She portrayed a bisexual in the movie Henry & June.
She dropped out of highschool and moved to New York to persue an acting career. She had to work as a dish washer and a model to be able to support herself when she got there.
Uma is named after a Hindu deity and her name means 'bestower of blessings'.
Her mother Nena is a former psychotherapist.
Uma received a 1995 Academy Award nomination (as best actress in a supporting role) for her performance as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction. She was also nominated for a 2005 Golden Globe Award (best actress in a movie drama) and a 2005 People's Choice Award (best action actress).
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