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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
Uma Thurman
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Uma Thurman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 29
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Uma Karuna Thurman
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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.
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Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.
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It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
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I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
Uma Thurman
We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.
Uma Thurman
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.
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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.
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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'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.
Uma Thurman
Three tomatoes are walking down the street-a poppa tomato, a mamma tomato, and a little baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind. Poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him and says, Catch up.
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I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
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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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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
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Uma Thurman
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
Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
Uma Thurman
