Uma Thurman - biography

“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.”

“I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“I was an escapee of childhood.  I always wanted to 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.”

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

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

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

Uma Thurman has appeared in the following films:
Kiss Daddy Goodnight (1987)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Johnny Be Good (1988)
Henry & June (1990)
Where the Heart Is (1990)
Final Analysis (1992)
Jennifer Eight (1992)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Batman and Robin (1997)
Gattaca (1997)
The Avengers (1998)
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Vatel (2000)
Chelsea Walls (2001)
Tape (2001)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Paycheck (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Be Cool (2005)
Prime (2005)
The Producers (2005)
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
The Life Before Her Eyes (2007)
The Accidental Husband (2008)
Motherhood (2009)
Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief (2010)
Ceremony (2010)
Bel Ami (2012)


Uma Thurman contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)