Memorable Quotes from Uma Thurman
31 quotesUnresolved Conflicts and Parental Appeals
Vernita
Look, if I could go back in a machine, I would. But I can't. All can tell you is that I'm a different person now.
The Bride
Oh great. I don't care.
Vernita
Be that as it may, I know I don't deserve your mercy or your forgiveness. However, I beseech you for both on behalf of my daughter.
The Bride
Bitch. You can stop right there. Just because I have no wish to murder you before the eyes of your daughter does not mean parading her around in front of me is going to inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business. And not a goddamn fucking thing you've done in the subsequent four years including getting knocked up is going to change that.
Vernita
So when do we do this?
The Bride
It all depends. When do you want to die? Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow?
Vernita
How about tonight, bitch?
The Bride
Splendid. Where?
Vernita
There's a baseball diamond where I coach Little League about a mile from here. We meet there around two-thirty in the morning dressed all in black. Your hair in a black stocking. And we have us a knife fight. We won't be bothered. Now...I have to fix Nikki's cereal.
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A Promise of Future Confrontation
The Bride
It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that, I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it coming. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.
[to Nikki, Vernita Green's daughter, after killing Vernita]
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Confrontation with O-Ren's Remaining Subordinates
The Bride
So, O-Ren... Any more subordinates for me to kill?
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Unattractive Proposal in a Casual Encounter
Willie
Do you want to go home with me?
Andera
No.
Willie
I had to ask, because to be honest with you, I don't find you the least bit attractive.
Willie
Now do you want to go home with me?
Andera
No.
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Negotiating Value in Mad Dog and Glory
Glory
How much am I going for?
Mad Dog
About $40,000
Glory
Is that all?
Mad Dog
Knocked down from 75.
Glory
I must be out of season.
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Unfinished Business and Parental Indifference
The Bride
Just because I have no wish to murder you before the eyes of your daughter does not mean parading her around in front of me is going to inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business. And not a goddamn fucking thing you've done in the subsequent four years, including getting knocked up, is going to change that.
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Love and Experience in Creative Relationships
June Miller
What don't I understand?
Anaïs Nin
That I love you.
June Miller
Love? You just want experience. You're a writer. You make love to whatever you need. You're just like Henry.
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Uncomfortable Silences
Mia
Don't you hate that?
Vincent
What?
Mia
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
Vincent
I don't know. That's a good question.
Mia
That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
A Lack of Mercy and Forgiveness
The Bride
It's mercy, compassion and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.
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Reflections on Love and Connection
Willie
I look at you and I think it's amazing that there's a guy out there gets to do all kinds of things with you. He gets to make you happy and spend evenings with you...
Andera
...make me martinis, listen to ]...
[[Van Morrison]
Willie
...smell your skin...
Andera
...after a day at the beach.
Willie
Yeah, and read the papers...
Andera
...on a Sunday morning...
Willie
...a rainy Sunday morning, and pepper your belly with baby kisses... Sorry.
Andera
The thing is, there's a guy out there thinks the same thing about Tracy and he's jealous of you because you get to do all that with her.
Willie
Let me ask you something; can you think of anything better than making love to an attractive stranger... with just an oil light to guide your way? Can you think of anything better?
Andera
Going back to Chicago. Ice cold martini. Van Morrison.
Willie
Sunday papers. Got ya.
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The Dilemma of Love's Initial Excitement
Willie
You know how it is, the beginnings? When you first fall in love and you can't eat, you can't sleep and getting a call from her, it makes your day. It's like seeing a shooting star.
Andera
It's the best.
Willie
Yeah, but, inevitably it goes away. It quiets down. So, this is my thing see, why get married now? Why not have two, three more of those beginning things before I, you know, settle into the big fade?
Andera
The big fade, that's an awful way to put it.
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The Divine Justification of Revenge
The Bride
When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other that not only does God exist, you're doing his will.
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Redemption and Worth in Despair
Jean Valjean
When you're better, I'll find work for you.
Fantine
But you don't understand, I'm a whore... and Cosette has no father.
Jean Valjean
She has the Lord. He is her father. And you're his creation. In his eyes, you have never been anything but an innocent and... beautiful woman.
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Desire for Freedom Through Intoxication
June Miller
I wanna be drunk. And make... you drunk. Because I'm intimidated by you. I need to feel free to say anything, and know that you'll forgive me.
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A Call to O-Ren Ishii
The Bride
O-REN ISHII! Shoubu wa mada tsuicha inai yo!
[calling out O-Ren in Japanese: "You and I have unfinished business!"]
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Youth and Madness in a Deadly Encounter
The Bride
The young girl in the school uniform is O-Ren's personal bodyguard, 17-year-old Gogo Yubari. Gogo may be young, but what she lacks in age, she makes up for in madness.
[narrating]
Japanese Businessman
Do you like Ferraris?
Gogo Yubari
Ferrari? Italian trash. Do you want to screw me?
[smacks down beverage bottle]
Gogo
Don't laugh! Do you want to screw me, yes or no?
Businessman
Yes.
Gogo
How about now, big boy? Do you still wish to penetrate me? Or is it I … who has penetrated you?
The Bride
See what I mean?
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The Rise of O-Ren Ishii
The Bride
O-Ren Ishii was born on an American military base in Tokyo, Japan. The half-Japanese, half-Chinese American army brat made her first acquaintance with death at the age of 9. It was that age she witnessed the death of her parents at the hands of Japan's most ruthless Yakuza boss, Boss Matsumoto. She swore revenge. Luckily, for her, Boss Matsumoto was a pedophile. At 11, she got her revenge. By 20, she was one of the top female assassins in the world. At 25, she did her part in the killing of 9 innocent people, including my unborn daughter, in a small wedding chapel in El Paso, Texas. But on that day, four years ago, she made one big mistake. She should've killed 10.
[about O-Ren]
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Claiming What Was Lost
The Bride
Those of you lucky enough to still have your lives, take them with you! But leave the limbs you have lost. They belong to me now. Except you, Sofie! You stay right where you are!
[in Japanese; to Sofie, in English]
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A Moment of Honesty and Doubt
Jean Valjean
You look better everyday.
Fantine
Liar.
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Perception and Reality in Relationships
June Miller
It's a distortion. Henry, Look at me! Look! You can't see me or anyone as they are! I wanted ]!
[[Fyodor Dostoyevsky|Dostoyevsky]
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Conflict Among Friends Escalates to Violence
Jenny Johnson
I thought you were just a jerk, but I didn't think you were this despicable! Teaming up with BARRY! You broke my heart! Now, I'm going to break your EVERYTHING!
Hannah Lewis
*HEY*! Let go of my boyfriend, you crazy BITCH!
[Hannah emerges from the meteor, shockingly gaining the same superpowers as Jenny]
Jenny Johnson
Bring it!
Vaughn Haige
Yes! GIRLFIGHT!
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Conflicted Morality and Mastery in Actions
June Miller
I've done the vilest things - the foulest things - but I've done them... superbly.
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Tension Between Two Mothers Unfolds
Vernita
So I suppose it's a little late for an apology, huh?
The Bride
You suppose correctly.
Vernita
Look, bitch...I need to know if you're going to start any more shit around my baby girl.
The Bride
You can relax for now. I'm not going to murder you in front of your child, okay?
Vernita
That's being more rational than Bill led me to believe you were capable of.
The Bride
It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.
Vernita
Look. I know I fucked you over. I fucked you over bad. I wish to God I hadn't, but I did. You have every right to want to get even.
The Bride
No, no, no, no, no. No, to get even, even-Steven? I would have to kill you...go up to Nikki's room, kill her...then wait for your husband, the good Dr. Bell, to come home and kill him. That would be even, Vernita. That'd be about square.
[draws a square in the air with a finger]
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The Nature of Uncomfortable Silences
Mia Wallace
Don't you hate that?
Vincent
Hate what?
Mia
Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
Vincent
I don't know. That's a good question.
Mia
That's when you know you've found somebody really special: you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.
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Conflict Over Art and Personal Relationships
Henry Miller
I'm not a portrait painter.
June Miller
I'll say you're not. Look what you've done to Anais. You make everything ugly! Beauty is a joke for you. You're so negative. You're a failure as a writer. You're not a man, you're a child! You use women! You used me, you fucker!
Henry Miller
AAAHHH!
June Miller
You fucker!
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Interrogation with Consequences
The Bride
I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss. Give me your other arm!
[to Sofie]
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A Message of Mercy and Revenge
The Bride
As I said before, I've allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons. And the second reason is so you can tell him in person everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know they'll all soon be as dead as O-Ren.
[Bill]
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Question About Relationship Duration
Tommy
Can I ask you a question?
Andera
Go ahead.
Tommy
How long have you been going out with your boyfriend?
Andera
Eight months.
Tommy
And it's good?
Andera
It's very good.
Tommy
He makes you happy?
Andera
Yeah. I look for that in a man you know. The ones that make me miserable don't seem to last.
Tommy
Right.
Andera
You know there are fours words I need to hear before I go to sleep. Four little words. "Good night sweet girl." That's all it takes. I'm easy, I know, but a guy who can muster up those four words is a guy I want to stay with.
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Consequences of Provoking the Yakuza
The Bride
This - is what - you get - for fucking - around - with Yakuzas! Go home to your mother!
[punctuating each word by spanking a boy with the flat side of her sword]
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Valuing Uniqueness in Choices and Losses
Vince
Do you have any idea how much those drugs cost?
Amy
There'll be other drugs, Vincent.
Vince
I know... but, I really liked those ones.
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Nostalgia for a Lost Moment
June Miller
I don't know why, I keep on thinking of this little Chinese restaurant that Henry and I used to go after I got off work. He'd wait for me outside the dance hall at two in the mornin', then we'd rush through the freezin cold holding each other tight. We'd get there just before closing time sit in a booth by the window eatin chow mein, watchin the snow swirl by. There was some kind of unbelievable thrill in the air between us. I feel kind of haunted by it now. Chin Lees. Its funny, it seems like a dream.
[Late at night in bed with Anaïs]
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