Uma Thurman Quotes

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard."
-Uma Thurman

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

"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