Quotes

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“I have that gawky, lanky awkwardness. Most actors are neurotic, in one way or another, about their appearance.”
[Eve (UK) - September 2006]

“I’ve worked so hard to keep everything on a positive note. Even when you get divorced, you’re still in a family. Even if you’re pissed off, or however you feel because of the guilt of separation, it doesn’t mean you’re not actually still a family. Whether you feel that or not, your children do. So if you create discord, they are the ones who really suffer.”
[You Magazine (UK) - January 1, 2006]

“I was maybe 5ft 8in when I was 12, that’s pretty damn tall. When you’re a girl and you’re tall and you look much older and have a vocabulary and look people in the eye, it’s not out of confidence, it’s out of simple honesty and directness. It’s a challenge to be yourself because you’re not emotionally capable of dealing with what the world will throw at you just because they think you can take it.”
[You Magazine (UK) - January 1, 2006]

“In my family, I was the only girl, so I was basicually one of the guys. I felt so atypical anyway, as many kids do when they have funny names or are too tall. I think self-image is planted early. That’s why people go to therapy.”
[You Magazine (UK) - January 1, 2006]

“My parents were Anti-Americana. They were so different I thought I had to work hard towards assimilating.”

“My ambitions have been raised as I have less to lose. I feel I could do anything and if people don’t like it, then I’ll go on to try something else. You see your friends go up and down the ladder, but it’s such a temporal way to look at things. If you’re a slave to the fame game then it’s a really ugly universe. That’s not my mission – and I feel fantastic.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.”

“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’m actually quite squeamish as a viewer. I don’t really like blood and gore. It ruins my day to watch brutality or true pain or real human suffering, or animal suffering. It kills me.”

“I think we all exude essential truths about ourselves, and then, as an actress, there’s what you do with it. There’s your wit and your imagination, and what you can cook up from your experience and understanding of what makes a human being tick.”

“In show business, to pry open doors in new areas is really tough. Until you have a successful comedy, people don’t think you could be funny, which is what makes a director like Quentin Tarantino so special. He sees beyond the things on the resume that you’ve done to date and opens up wonderful cans of worms for you to crawl into. That’s a cool thing.”

“Having children flips the game from being about you to being about what you can create in a home and what your responsibilities are. I’ve thought about quitting, but I love what I do so much – it’s the big conundrum of my life… So I’m fighting to keep my foot in the business, be creative and stimulated, and still take care of my children.”

“Someone asked me recently the last three things I bought on my credit card and I couldn’t remember. I forgot everything – I forgot my own phone number the other day!”

“I’ve known some great rock chicks, and it seems to me they’re allowed to have a lot more edge than movie people, where everybody’s got the latest youth serums going, the newest exercise and, if that won’t cover it, they’ll do something else. There’s this sort of improve-yourself aspect, whereas the music business seems to have this much more funky attitude, with, like, a slight respect for damage.”

“Image to me is Madonna – I don’t have that.”

“Sometimes you just got to go! Don’t wait until the last bus leaves, don’t stand there and have to be prodded and pleaded with. Go!.”
[Uma on being an adult]

“There are actresses who are very, very famous and very, very well paid, who basically make fashion movies. Their job is to wear Alaia dresses. I haven’t been attracted to that.”

“People have always stared at me beacuse I’m strange shaped and a bit of a sore thumb.”

“Wow! That I’m found attractive is bizarre to me.”

“I see waitresses every day who are much more attractive than me. Just because I’m on a movie screen, guys fantasize about me.”

“I am completely a goofball nerd!”

“They probably get their coffee from a waitress every morning that’s better-looking than I am.”

“Even the air is dishonest.”
[Uma on Hollywood]

“I need to raise the stakes now. I’m looking for some interesting character to sink my teeth into.”

“Even, today, when people tell me I’m beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.”

“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.”

“Most films these days are men’s stories. Women are for add-on romance. That’s very hard.”

“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.”

“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. I found it a very uninteresting way to spend time.”

“I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I’ve been so cool for so long, the split was excruciating.”

“Do I have lipstick on my teeth?”

“Everyone constantly taunts you that rebound relationships aren’t a good idea and that they don’t work. But mine is working, surprisingly. It’s lovely to have a man in my life who’s cute, intelligent, interesting and complicated, and very supportive.”

“Somebody stop me from beeping. Or do you want to see what I’ll do next?”

“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.”

“I’m so flattered and touched by your comments.”

“I’ve learned that every working mom is a superwoman.”