Uma Thurman Quotes

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

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

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

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

Boredom is a great motivator.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

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.

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

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

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

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

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

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

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

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 is technically a failure when you don't try.

It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

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.

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

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

We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.

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

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

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

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

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

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

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

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

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 guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.