Top 52 Uma Thurman Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#6. 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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#7. 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.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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.

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#11. 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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#12. 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.

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#13. Boredom is a great motivator.

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

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

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#16. 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.

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

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. 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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#21. 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.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

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

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

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#28. 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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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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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#32. 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.

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#33. I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

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#34. 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.

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#35. 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.

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#36. 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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#37. 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.

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#38. 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.

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

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

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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.

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

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

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

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#46. I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

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#47. I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

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

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#49. 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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#50. 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.

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#51. 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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#52. My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

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