Faith & Spirit Quote by Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman’s careful “Not really” does the most work here: it’s a preemptive refusal of the celebrity soundbite that turns faith into branding. She’s answering a question designed to produce a label, and she sidesteps it with a distinction between inheritance and adherence. “More my religion than any other” isn’t a conversion story; it’s a claim about atmosphere. Buddhism is framed less as a set of doctrines than as a childhood climate, an “intellectual and spiritual environment” that shaped her reflexes even if it never became a routine.

The subtext is about legitimacy and permission. Public figures are often expected to either perform devotion or disavow it completely. Thurman chooses a third lane: belonging without the costume. By explicitly saying she doesn’t “practice or preach,” she signals she’s not selling anything, not recruiting, not trying to score depth points. That matters in a culture where “Buddhist” can become shorthand for being chill, enlightened, or aesthetically minimalist. She’s wary of that flattening.

There’s also a quiet nod to the modern Western relationship to Buddhism: for many, it arrives through family, therapy-adjacent mindfulness, or artistic circles rather than a temple community. Her phrasing keeps the door open to influence without claiming authority. It’s an ethical move as much as a personal one: she won’t take the identity if she can’t stand behind the practice. In the celebrity context, that restraint reads like integrity.