Latest Uma Thurman Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that life force is invaluable.

  Uma Thurman

  Thinking, Force, Invaluable

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Jobs, Character, Breathing

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Baby, Children, Nursing

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.

  Uma Thurman

  Mother, Children, Friendly

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Uma Thurman

  Motherhood, Years, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I guess I'm lucky to have been blindsided. I'm lucky to have gotten into fistfights, in a way. I'm lucky I learned how to stop them.

  Uma Thurman

  Lucky, Way, Has Beens

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Uma Thurman

  Blessed, People, Empathy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Pain, Interesting, Forgiving

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.

  Uma Thurman

  Fall, Taken, Simple

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• It is technically a failure when you don't try.

  Uma Thurman

  Trying

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Uma Thurman

  Reading, Humble, Progress

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  One Day, Parks, Facts

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Uma Thurman

  Meditation, Finding Strength, Daring

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  War, Fighting, Empathy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.

  Uma Thurman

  Environment

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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

  Uma Thurman

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Ideas, Feelings, Going Out

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Mean, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.

  Uma Thurman

  Children, Wish, Mets

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Children, Independent, Careers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Drama, Romance, Comedy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Drama, Writing, Fiction

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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

  Uma Thurman

  Thinking, Brain, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Stories, Invisible, Wanted

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Uma Thurman

  Frustrated, Comedian, Different

  Source: movieweb.com