Uma Thurman Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dumb, Mirror, Mean

• 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

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  Tags in Athlete, Fun, Celebrity, Right, Stretch

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

  Uma Thurman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Childhood, 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Athlete, Athletic, Celebrity, Weird

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Selling, Basically, Will

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inexhaustible, Thrown

• 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

  Topics in Love, Work

  Tags in Athlete, Hang, Celebrity, Home

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

  Uma Thurman

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Athlete, Austin, Show Off, Celebrity

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

  Uma Thurman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Self Description, Gal, Eyes, Celebrity

• We never left a set until we’d trashed it.

  Uma Thurman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Celebrity

• I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

  Uma Thurman

  Topics in Environment

• 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

  Topics in Environment, Religion

  Tags in Spiritual, Preach

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

  Uma Thurman

  Tags in Flush, Toilet

• 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

  Tags in Differently, Good People

• 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

  Tags in I Have Learned

• 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

  Tags in Actor, Eccentric, Perfume

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

  Uma Thurman

  Tags in Words

• 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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  Tags in Teen

Uma Thurman (18)

Birth:	29th April, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Model

About

Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won a Golden Globe Award.

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