Best 59 quotes of Uma Thurman on MyQuotes

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

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

As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body hit the ground at 4 a.m. and obviously, for any new parent, that is the most horrifying thing that could happen, right? You're exhausted and you take your tiny little baby out and you put them on the bed to change diapers before nursing and you turn around and you discover... my baby can roll! And you think you're going to die.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

I think that life force is invaluable.

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

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

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.

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.

It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

On a fundamental level - 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.