Quotes by Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

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

Female

Taught

Thinking

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.

Baby

Children

Nursing

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.

Baby

Children

Heart

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.

Buddhism

Thinking

Who I Am

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

Neat

Parent

People

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.

Business

Crazy

Nuts

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

Beautiful

Believe

People

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.

Challenges

Difficult

Fun

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

Brain

Stories

Thinking

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Buddhist

Environment

Grew

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Able

Add

Adore

Baby

Beautiful

Believe

Best Experiences

Brain

Breathing

Buddhism

Buddhist

Business

Careers

Challenges

Character

Childhood

Children

Comedian

Comedy

Community

Crazy

Daughter

Different

Difficult

Drama

Empathy

Environment

Facts

Fatherhood

Female

Fiction

Fighting

First Pregnancy

Firsts

Forgiving

Frustrated

Fun

Given

Grew

Growing Up

Heart

Home

I've Learned

Independent

Interesting

Intimate

Invisible

Jobs

Lows

Men

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Quotes by Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

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

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.

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.

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

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

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

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