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Quotes
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes,
skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal." - Uma Thurman,
self description
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 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'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.
Most
films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's
very hard.
Tall,
sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others.
An average gal.
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 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.
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.
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.
My washing machine overwhelms me with its
options and its sophistication.
Everyone looked the same, everyone had it
down to such a perfect T. You get bored. That's when you have to say, 'I
will be worst-dressed.', on her questionable choice of Oscar attire this
year (2004)
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.
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.
I think we all exude essential truths about
ourselves, and then, as an actress, there's what you do with it. There's
your wit and your imagination, and what you can cook up from your
experience and understanding of what makes a human being tick.
In show business, to pry open doors in new
areas is really tough. Until you have a successful comedy, people don't
think you could be funny, which is what makes a director like Quentin
Tarantino so special. He sees beyond the things on the resume that
you've done to date and opens up wonderful cans of worms for you to
crawl into. That's a cool thing.
Having children flips the game from being
about you to being about what you can create in a home and what your
responsibilities are. I've thought about quitting, but I love what I do
so much - it's the big conundrum of my life.... So I'm fighting to keep
my foot in the business, be creative and stimulated, and still take care
of my children.
I've known some great rock chicks, and it
seems to me they're allowed to have a lot more edge than movie people,
where everybody's got the latest youth serums going, the newest exercise
and, if that won't cover it, they'll do something else. There's this
sort of improve-yourself aspect, whereas the music business seems to
have this much more funky attitude, with, like, a slight respect for
damage.
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