Uma Thurman Quotes
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Buddhism, Effect, World)
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Business, People, Actor, Desperation, End)
"Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: People, Today, Word)
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Fun, Right, Word)
"I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: 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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Dumb)
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Love, Thought, Heart, Limits)
"I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Childhood)
"I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Love)
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Love, Work, Home, Daughter, Garden)
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Work, People, Character, Being)
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Men, Selling, Job, Want, Will, Years)
"Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Eyes)
"We never left a set until we'd trashed it."
- Uma Thurman
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Religion, Buddhist, Environment, Practice, Spiritual)
"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."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Life, Adolescence, First, Years)
"It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet."
- Uma Thurman