Julia Roberts quotes
Born
October 28, 1967, Smyrna, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation
Actress.
Julia Roberts is an American actress.
Movies
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Michael Collins (1996)
Notting Hill (1999)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.
– 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
A fever is an expression of inner rage.
– 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 just have a great life. I know great people. I’ve had great relationships – all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.
– Julia Roberts
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
– 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
Show me a person who doesn’t like to laugh and I’ll show you a person with a toe tag.
– Julia Roberts
Actually, I’m not crazed about what I eat.
– 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 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’m just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.
– 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 love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
– 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 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
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
– Julia Roberts
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.
– Julia Roberts
I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.
– 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
The kind of energy I attract is very calm.
– 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
Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
– Julia Roberts
I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.
– 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
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
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
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
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.
– Julia Roberts
True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.
– Julia Roberts
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.’
– Julia Roberts
Show me a mall, and I’m happy.
– Julia Roberts
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for ‘Pretty Woman.’
– 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
Your face tells a story and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.
– Julia Roberts
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.
– Julia Roberts
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!
– Julia Roberts