Uma's success, my failure wrecked marriage: Hawke

Ethan Hawke's marriage to Uma Thurman floundered when her career took off and his began to fail, the actor has confessed.

The pair ended their six-year marriage in 2004, when Thurman's career was on the rise and Hawke's was beginning to wane.

Speaking on US talk show Sunday Morning Shootout - due to air this weekend - the actor says: "It's unfair when one person's career is taking off and the other is really suffering.

"What happens - it's not that they're jealous of each other; it's that the person you share your life with isn't in the mood to support. You want to have a pity party for yourself, but they're off to the Golden Globes and you don't want to go because everyone is going to think you are jealous.

"There's a certain geometry to life - that life has a certain math equation to it and if you're never together, you can't build a home.

"Joanne Woodward put her career on the back burner for that marriage (to Paul Newman) to last. And something's got to give."