115 Quotes by Uma Thurman

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don’t have one.

Most films these days are men’s stories. Women are for add-on romance. That’s very hard.

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.

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.

I’m an actress and mom, and I probably don’t have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don’t know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don’t actually practise them.

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.

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.

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.

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.