Julia Roberts quotes

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

— 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

“I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.”

— Julia Roberts

“Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.”

— Julia Roberts

“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.”

— 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

“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.”

— 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

“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

“Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.”

— Julia Roberts

“Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.”

— Julia Roberts

“During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.”

— Julia Roberts

“You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.”

— 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

“Actually, I'm not crazed about what I eat.”

— Julia Roberts

“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!”

— Julia Roberts

“Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.”

— Julia Roberts

“Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.”

— Julia Roberts

“I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated.”

— 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 don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.”

— Julia Roberts

“I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.”

— Julia Roberts

“People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.”

— Julia Roberts

“The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them.”

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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