Uma Thurman Quotes
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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 certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.
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You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.
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It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.
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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 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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I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.
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If you're not ready to be in a relationship, going out with someone much younger than you is probably a great idea, because you both can have a decent experience and hopefully nobody will end up feeling cheated when it ends.
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Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.
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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.
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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.
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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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More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.
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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.