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.

The Washington Post described her acting as shallow writing that "Thurman's strangely passive characterization doesn't go much deeper than drawling and flexing her prosthetic thumbs". "


1994–1998
After Mad Dog and Glory Thurman auditioned for Quentin Tarantino ensemble movie Pulp Fiction which grossed over $107 million on a budget of only $8 million. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies.

She won a Golden Globe Award for the miniseries Hysterical Blindness (2002). Following early roles in films such as Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Uma Thurman rose to international prominence in 1994 following her role in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction for which Uma Thurman was nominated for an Academy Award a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award.