Uma Thurman quotes

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.
-- Uma Thurman

#People #Crosses #Streets

I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.
-- Uma Thurman

#Comedian #Frustrated #Different

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Baby #Children #Heart

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
-- Uma Thurman

#Buddhist #Environment #Grew

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
-- Uma Thurman

#Taken #Long #Risk

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

#Mom #Working Mom

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

#Relationship #Cheating #Toilets

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Business #Crazy #Nuts

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

#Intimate

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Daughter #Mother #Home

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

#Beautiful #Believe #People

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
-- Uma Thurman

#Pregnancy #Firsts #First Pregnancy

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

#Growing Up #Childhood #Fatherhood

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
-- Uma Thurman

#Perspective #Mental Illness #Illness

I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.
-- Uma Thurman

#Beautiful #Thinking #Vanity

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Beautiful #Patriotic #Heart

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
-- Uma Thurman

#Silence #Special #Minutes

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
-- Uma Thurman

#Machines #Sophistication

Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
-- Uma Thurman

#Baby #Tomatoes #Littles

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
-- Uma Thurman

#Austin #Timing #Comic

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

#Reality #Tvs #Comedy

It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
-- Uma Thurman

#Jobs #Kissing #First Kiss

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

#Mother #Being A Mother #Given

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Real #Character #Writing

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Mean #Kids #Mirrors

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
-- Uma Thurman

#Men #Romance #Add

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Character #Fighting #Thinking

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Inspirational #Pain #Teenager

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Buddhism #Thinking #Who I Am

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Fun #Challenges #Difficult

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

#Jobs #Men #Years

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

To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.
-- Uma Thurman

#Nice #Men #Broken

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Kids #Athletic #Littles

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

#Able #Reputation

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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Mom #Jobs #Feel Better

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

#People #Parent #Neat

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

#Worry #Stressed #Truth Is

When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, 'It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better.' And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was going to stay that way for a long time.
-- Uma Thurman

#Breakup #Feel Better #Thinking

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

#Thinking #Expectations #High Expectations

~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~
-- Uma Thurman

#Believe #Kids #Parenting

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
-- Uma Thurman

#Thinking #Taught #Female

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

#Eye #Blue #Average

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

#Writing #Interesting #Care

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. But 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.
-- Uma Thurman

#Spiritual #Buddhist #Buddhism