Uma Thurman Quotes

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

It is technically a failure when you don't try.

Boredom is a great motivator.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think that life force is invaluable.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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