Julia Roberts Quotes

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.

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 try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

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 want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.

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.

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.

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

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

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

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

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

God dwells within me. As me.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.

The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

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

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

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

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

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.

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.

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

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I've had in my past worked for so long is because when you're making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don't even see the person.

I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.

I can't wait to have kids; I just can't wait to hold a baby in my arms.

I've sort of grown into my cuteness.

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

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

An Oscar is a total honor. It's thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn't really mean anything. It's a moment in time.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.

The jobs don't get married. The people get married.

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 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.

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

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?

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

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

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

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.

I certainly take work as a joyous responsibility.

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.