Uma Thurman Quotes

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

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

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

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

Boredom is a great motivator.

I think everybody has a hard time connecting, but as you get older and you want more and you expect more and you know more, it's just different. If you start wanting too much from it without it naturally unfolding, then that makes it bad. If you start not wanting anything, then you are not serious. I mean it's just this conundrum of issues.

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 do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.

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

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.

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 know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.

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

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

If you're not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.

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

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

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

I still love the people I've loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.

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

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.

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

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.