Famous Julia Roberts Quotes
Last Update On December 14, 2011
When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.
--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
You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
--Julia Roberts
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
--Julia Roberts
Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
--Julia Roberts
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.
--Julia Roberts
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
--Julia Roberts
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.
--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
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
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
--Julia Roberts
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
--Julia Roberts
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.'
--Julia Roberts
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.
--Julia Roberts
My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
--Julia Roberts
People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think JuliaRoberts 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
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
--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
Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
--Julia Roberts
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.
--Julia Roberts
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
They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts it into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just guys.
--Julia Roberts
True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
--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
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
--Julia Roberts
A fever is an expression of inner rage.
--Julia Roberts
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
--Julia Roberts
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.
--Julia Roberts
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
--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 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 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.
--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 don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
--Julia Roberts
I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.
--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
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
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
I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
--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'm an utterly average, total geek.
--Julia Roberts
I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.
--Julia Roberts
I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.
--Julia Roberts
I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.
--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
