Julia Roberts Quotes & Sayings

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys. — Julia Roberts

Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day. — Julia Roberts

You never know how stylish a movie is going to be and I think this movie has a great sense of style. The way that it is shot and our costumes and everything, it was just terrific. — Julia Roberts

I wouldn't have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I'm so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It's just stupendous. — Julia Roberts

I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something. — Julia Roberts

The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me. — Julia Roberts

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible. — Julia Roberts

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other. — Julia Roberts

Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it. — Julia Roberts

Some people are antagonized by the truth. — Julia Roberts

When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it's going, you'll be okay. Then you become more relaxed. — Julia Roberts

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates. — Julia Roberts

I'm an utterly average, total geek. — Julia Roberts

I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love. — Julia Roberts

I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I'm feeling at the exact moment I'm feeling it ... that is critical. — Julia Roberts

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded. — Julia Roberts

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day. — Julia Roberts

I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad. — Julia Roberts

I went out in my goddamn underwear too! — Julia Roberts

Actually, I'm not crazed about what I eat. — Julia Roberts

My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair. — Julia Roberts

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. — Julia Roberts

I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad. — Julia Roberts

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job. — Julia Roberts

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. — Julia Roberts

The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them. — Julia Roberts

I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated. — Julia Roberts

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me. — Julia Roberts

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. — Julia Roberts

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory. — Julia Roberts

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. — Julia Roberts

Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made. — Julia Roberts

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad? — Julia Roberts

I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life. — Julia Roberts

The body is a great machine, and it knows how to take care of itself. I think more often than not the things we do to our skin or our bodies can hold it back from doing its proper job. — Julia Roberts

Why is it so weird that somebody didn't recognize me? ... The fact is that whenever I meet somebody, I say, 'Nice to meet you. I'm Julia.' — Julia Roberts

If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary. — Julia Roberts

I don't spend a lot of time in the mirror. — Julia Roberts

I have had a lot of your countrymen as co-stars, that's true. I quite like them both. It depends on the person. I don't think English makes the man nor does American, but I like this guy right here [Clive]. He's nice and tall, which means I never have a double chin - there's lots of shots of me looking up, and I'm a swan. Well, we all laugh but it's so true. — Julia Roberts

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel like you're having an experience that is positive and that you're learning from. — Julia Roberts

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself. — Julia Roberts

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag. — Julia Roberts

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor. — Julia Roberts

I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi. — Julia Roberts

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies. — Julia Roberts

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again. — Julia Roberts

Patchouli has always been a part of my fragrance, like a line through my life. — Julia Roberts

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love. — Julia Roberts

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else. — Julia Roberts

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before. — Julia Roberts

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office. — Julia Roberts

I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves. — Julia Roberts

A fever is an expression of inner rage. — Julia Roberts

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become. — Julia Roberts

I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock. — Julia Roberts

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had. — Julia Roberts

True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you. — Julia Roberts

I prefer to act with friends. I mean you start off as strangers always with someone, but to really find a relationship that you enjoy personally and creatively, it's fantastic. — Julia Roberts

The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either. — Julia Roberts

God dwells within me. As me. — Julia Roberts

I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them. — Julia Roberts

I'm a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I've cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn't trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I'm pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not. — Julia Roberts

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward. — Julia Roberts

The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really. — Julia Roberts

Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse. — Julia Roberts

How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces. — Julia Roberts

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it. — Julia Roberts

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. — Julia Roberts

People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market. — Julia Roberts

I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant. — Julia Roberts

I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed. — Julia Roberts

On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money. — Julia Roberts

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally ... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary. — Julia Roberts

I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping. — Julia Roberts

It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with. — Julia Roberts

I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to. — Julia Roberts

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by. — Julia Roberts

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. — Julia Roberts

Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great. — Julia Roberts

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea. — Julia Roberts

I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job. — Julia Roberts

The babies are amazing ... They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise. — Julia Roberts

I, uh ... I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and ... and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.' — Julia Roberts

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. — Julia Roberts

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal. — Julia Roberts

People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza? — Julia Roberts

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too. — Julia Roberts

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity. — Julia Roberts

I think I've always sort of been on the more boyish spectrum of girls. For example, I've never been chosen as 'one of the top-five hottest actresses in a bikini.' And honestly, it's a godsend. When I was younger, I'd think, 'Oh, I'm the prettiest one. It's not Halle Berry. It's not!' But it is, you know? — Julia Roberts

Loving what you do is the secret to everything. — Julia Roberts

People don't want to see me having sex ... I'm the queen of the 'kiss, foreplay, dissolve.' And then the 'Whoo! Good morning, tiger. — Julia Roberts

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating. — Julia Roberts

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience. — Julia Roberts

I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. -Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias — Julia Roberts

I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me. — Julia Roberts

I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life. — Julia Roberts

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world. — Julia Roberts

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve. — Julia Roberts

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu. — Julia Roberts

[On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don't think your high-school algebra teacher should be one of them. — Julia Roberts