Uma Thurman Quotes

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

I prefer to do roles that I can relate to.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

As an actress, my ultimate goal is to create a universal experience in my acting.

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

As filmmakers and as actors, you have to find truth.

Man, I live out 90 percent of my songs and the other 10 percent... once in a while, I'll put myself in someone else's shoes and try to go down that road.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.