Uma Thurman Quotes
There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Quotes to Explore
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People take things so seriously.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
