Top 100 Julia Roberts Quotes
#1. Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.
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#2. 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.
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#4. We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.
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#5. Loving what you do is the secret to everything.
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#6. I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded,
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#7. I think people who come into my home feel comfortable and welcome and loved. And the biggest thing in my living room (the fireplace) is in and of itself an expression of love.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.
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#12. I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.
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#13. I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.
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#14. Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?
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#15. I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
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#16. I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.
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#19. I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.
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#20. 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?
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#22. Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
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#23. 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.
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#25. Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
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#26. I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.
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#27. Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.
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#28. I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.
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#29. It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other.
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#30. You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.
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#31. I, uh ... I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and ... and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'
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#32. 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.
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#33. It's an exceptional time, and it's always the happiest time if you can be really present and doing the things that you want to be doing and surrounding yourself with the people you love. So, yeah, I'm in a good spot right now.
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#35. There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.
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#36. When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
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#39. In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
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#40. I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.
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#41. I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.'
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#46. I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. -Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias
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#47. I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
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#48. Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty
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#49. 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.
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#58. 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.
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#59. The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
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#60. 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?
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#61. 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!
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#63. I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
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#64. 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.
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#65. The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.
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#66. Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
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#67. 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.
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#69. I am completely happy with my life. I love everything about it.
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#70. True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
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#71. You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
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#72. 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!
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#73. People don't want to see me having sex ... I'm the queen of the 'kiss, foreplay, dissolve.' And then the 'Whoo! Good morning, tiger.
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#74. I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos ...
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#75. I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'
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#76. I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I'm feeling at the exact moment I'm feeling it ... that is critical.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.'
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#79. 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.
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#80. 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.
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#81. Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
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#82. 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.
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#83. I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.
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#84. I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.
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#85. When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
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#86. Patchouli has always been a part of my fragrance, like a line through my life.
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#87. I wouldn't have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I'm so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It's just stupendous.
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#88. Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words
to feel their pain.
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#89. The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.
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#90. 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.
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#91. On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.
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#92. 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.
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#93. I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.
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#97. 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.
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#98. I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
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#99. I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.
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#100. I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.
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