Julia Roberts quotes

“I think that I am a deeply optimistic person.”

— Julia Roberts

“I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.”

— Julia Roberts

“Patchouli has always been a part of my fragrance, like a line through my life.”

— Julia Roberts

“The kind of energy I attract is very calm.”

— 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 don't spend a lot of time in the mirror.”

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

— Julia Roberts

“Show me a mall, and I'm happy.”

— 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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

— Julia Roberts

“When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door, you don't really tend to 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 down to the market, so it's really not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel like I'm ahead of myself.”

— 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

“Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.”

— Julia Roberts

“I am completely happy with my life. I love everything about it.”

— 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

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

— Julia Roberts

“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.”

— Julia Roberts

“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.”

— 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'm an utterly average, total geek.”

— 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