Uma Thurman Quotes
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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.
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Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.
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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.
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That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.
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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
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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.
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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.
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Boredom is a great motivator.
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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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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.
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Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.
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Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.
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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.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
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It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
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It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
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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.
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~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.~
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It is technically a failure when you don't try.
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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.
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
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My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
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One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.
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Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
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You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.
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Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
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