Uma Thurman

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.