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" 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. "

Uma Thurman

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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