Quotes About Roberts

#1. I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

Eric Stoltz

#2. Mrs. Roberts, you remember when Mr. Roberts was out of town and you had me over? The thing we did with the pie? Who would have thought I could eat a whole pie, but then again who would have thought you could hold an entire pie down, well, down there?

Alex Morgan

#3. Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

Olympia Snowe

#4. For some reason, now, she saw the panel in the Roberts, all those faces. Read Us the Book of the Names of the Dead. All the Marlys, she thought all the girls she'd been through the long season of youth.

William Gibson

#5. Kids, Roberts," she said, just to be clear. "I have fertile eggs in me, and I'm talking about having
babies."
She waited for the eye twitch. Or hell, even a tiny twinge.
Instead, with a smile, he pulled her in for a kiss.

Julie James

#6. Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

Ralph G. Neas

#7. Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

Dakota Fanning

#8. Robin Roberts - what a trailblazer she has been in sports TV! One of the best in TV.

Megan Alexander

#9. Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

Jay Rockefeller

#11. Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

Jean-Luc Godard

#13. Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing concluded, just as his civil rights record and views had been the most controversial part of his record when the hearing began.

Mel Watt

#14. I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

Tom Coburn

#15. Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.

Rudy Giuliani

#16. And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#17. 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

#18. I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Cameron Diaz

#19. Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

Al Gore

#20. I was like: I'm going to ask her [Julia Roberts] out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

Matthew Perry

#21. Since I was 4, Julia Roberts has inspired me. I thought if I liked her enough, I'd become as pretty as her. That didn't happen, but I was obsessed and watched her movies over and over.

Martha MacIsaac

#22. Julia Roberts was really rather lovely. I had to interview her on Pebble Mill At One years ago. You learn not to be starstruck if you're trying to get a decent interview out of someone. If you fall apart it's counter productive.

Alan Titchmarsh

#23. I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

Michael Bennett

#24. Nora Roberts is cool.

Stephen King

#25. Judge [Samuel] Alito, I'll tell you the same thing I told John Roberts. I expect you to adhere to the Code of Judicial Conduct.

Jon Kyl

#26. These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.

George Lois

#27. Excuse me, Monsieur Poirot. If you'd like to ask any questions, I'm sure the doctor wouldn't mind.
Of course not. Of course not. Great admirer of yours, Monsieur Poirot. Little gray cells
order and method. I know all about it.
Doctor Roberts

Agatha Christie

#28. OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

Joely Richardson

#29. In the tradition of Black Hawk Down, Malcolm MacPherson vividly brings to life this harrowing story of courage, pathos, and war at its grittiest. For military history buffs, or those interested in the front lines of the war on terror, Roberts Ridge is a must read.

Jay Winik

#30. Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.

Mary Hart

#31. It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

Ron Wyden

#32. I wouldn't want to be a superstar, like Julia Roberts or Madonna, and be on the cover of 'US' magazine when I'm twenty - that's how you know you're really hot. I'd rather have a long, respected career.

Kellie Martin

#33. I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love 'Mary Poppins' - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

Willa Holland

#34. I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful unanimous decision that Chief Justice Roberts wrote saying you can't search a cellphone on arrest without a warrant.

Jeffrey Rosen

#35. There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

Amanda Peet

#36. I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

Ashley Greene

#37. So how did you manage to lose Lunsdorf?"
"He got away from Sergeant Roberts in Harrods."
"I sometimes wish I could do that when shopping with my wife," said the cabinet secretary.

Jeffrey Archer

#38. There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.

Calvin Jillson

#39. I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name.

John Cornyn

#40. Miss Roberts, where should I send the check for the steam cleaning of your furniture and replacement of your ruined panties?

Alexandra Iff

#41. I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

Rufus Sewell

#42. The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

Rand Paul

#43. We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.

Mychal Thompson

#44. To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts

Kai McCarthy

#45. Is this how Julia Roberts' character feels like in Pretty Woman? Two parts princess, one part whore?

Parker S. Huntington

#46. I would love to work with Julia Roberts at some point.

Brad Goreski

#47. It takes an unusual man to make up a hymn in a hurry, but such a man was Captain Roberts. He knew every hymn in The Antique and Contemporary Hymn Book, and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny.

Terry Pratchett

#48. She wanted a degree in business technology, not to be the next freaking Nora Roberts.

Mari Carr

#49. My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

Dakota Fanning

#50. The difference between men I have camped with and myself, generally speaking,' Mary Roberts Reinhart wrote, 'has been this: they have called it sport; I have known it as work.

Warren Belasco

#51. The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

Ralph G. Neas

#52. Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.

Maria Menounos

#53. I wanna create a character that's really memorable ... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

Kari Wuhrer

#54. Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.

Luise Rainer

#55. We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

Alberto Gonzales

#56. When I met Julia Roberts, the only thing that came out my mouth was, 'Thank you.'

Suki Waterhouse

#57. Don't sweat the small stuff, it's a long walk back to EDEN. Carolyn Roberts

Stephen King

#58. Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

Robert H. Schuller

#59. I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me 'Weasley.

William Goldman

#60. There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Peter Straub

#61. I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

Jessica Simpson

#62. Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.

John McCain

#63. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

Steve Erickson

#64. I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me.

Henry Kravis

#65. Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

Jake Roberts

#66. In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience, infrastructure and networks to compete effectively with the large complex companies that we seek to acquire.

Henry Kravis

#67. With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!

Jerry Coleman

#68. Roberts knocked, heard: 'Enter.' Thought: 'Wanker.

Ken Bruen

#69. She hoped the menfolk were having a nice, relaxing road trip in that souped-up man car they were riding in because as soon as they got to the Roberts' house, she was pawning off the woman formerly known as her sister onto the dude whose sperm had apparently turned her into a she-devil.

Julie James

#70. Woman," Westley roared, "you are the property of the Dread Pirate Roberts and you ... do ... what ... you're ... told!

William Goldman

#71. When I was coming up, it was the golden age. It was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, and Reese Witherspoon was starting. You really had, 'Who is America's Next Sweetheart?' every couple of years. And then this sort of bromance slacker thing took over.

Elizabeth Banks

#72. I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

Lewis Black

#73. When most people get drunk, they see snakes. But, when snakes get drunk, they see Jake Roberts!

Jerry Lawler

#74. for Roberts talks chiefly of God's love and of the great joy of living in obedience to that love.

Evan Roberts

#75. Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

Orrin Hatch

#76. Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

Billy Graham

#77. I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.

Jon Kyl

#78. I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

Gayle King

#79. But I loved making 'Eat Pray Love,' and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

Richard Jenkins

#80. And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

Fred Thompson

#81. They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#82. <> Men don't like Julia Roberts? <> Nope. Her teeth scare them. <> Good to know.

Rainbow Rowell

#83. Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don't watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.

Rainbow Rowell

#84. Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.

M.J. Rose

#85. When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

James Crumley

#86. I think Chris Roberts is one of them, Will Wright's another, Peter Molyneux is another. They clearly exist, but on the whole, I think that the design talent in our industry is dramatically lower than we need, as an industry. It's a very hard skill to learn.

Richard Garriott

#87. My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

Tom Coburn

#88. Men don't like Julia Roberts? Nope. Her teeth scare them. Good to know.

Rainbow Rowell

#89. I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)

George Clooney

#90. I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.

Rachael Leigh Cook

#91. Captain Roberts went to Heaven, which wasn't everything that he'd expected, and as the receding water gently marooned the wreck of the Sweet Judy on the forest floor, only one soul was left alive. Or possibly two, if you like parrots.

Terry Pratchett

#92. My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?

Simon Fowler

#93. If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.

Jennifer Tilly

#94. In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, and diaries," unquote. Plus, he went on, best friends, lovers ...

Peter Sagal

#95. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.

Molly Owens

#96. There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist ... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

Jonathan Turley

#97. The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

Mira Sorvino

#98. The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#99. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the original 'Steel Magnolias' with Dolly Parton and Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

Matthew Moy

#100. As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

George A. Romero