Top 174 Quotes & Sayings by Julia Roberts

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Julia Roberts.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts is an American actress. One of Hollywood's most bankable stars, she is known for her leading roles in films of several genres, from romantic comedies and dramas to thrillers and action films. Many of her films have earned over $100 million worldwide, and six have ranked among the highest-grossing films of their respective years. Her top-billing films have collectively brought in over $3.8 billion globally. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.
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.
Show me a mall, and I'm happy. — © Julia Roberts
Show me a mall, and I'm happy.
I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.
My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.
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.
I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office. — © Julia Roberts
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
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.
I'm an utterly average, total geek.
I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.
I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.
I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.
I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.
My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'
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.
Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now!
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
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.
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
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.
I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.
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.
I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
My life at home gives me absolute joy. Having so much time there with the family has just been incredible. My life has changed and I work less, but I was never really one to work too much.
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.
I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
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.
I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.
Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag. — © Julia Roberts
Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.
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.
'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.
The kind of energy I attract is very calm.
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
Patchouli has always been a part of my fragrance, like a line through my life.
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.
A fever is an expression of inner rage.
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?
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.
I'm definitely a practicing Hindu. — © Julia Roberts
I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.
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.
If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
I am completely happy with my life. I love everything about it.
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.
People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.
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.
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
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.
My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'
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.
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
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