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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Uma Thurman

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Uma Thurman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 29
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Boston
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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
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Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
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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.
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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.
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
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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.
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To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.
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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.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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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.
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Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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It is technically a failure when you don't try.
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I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.
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Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.
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Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.
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