Uma Thurman Quotes

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I think that life force is invaluable.

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

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

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.

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