21 Quotes & Sayings By Julia Roberts

Julia Fiona Roberts was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on November 22, 1967. She is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. She was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine in 1999. Roberts began her career with small roles in various television series, before attaining recognition for her supporting role in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990) for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Read more

She then starred in Mystic Pizza (1988), Bedazzled (2000), Notting Hill (1999), Erin Brockovich (2000), Runaway Bride (1999), My Best Friend's Wedding (1998), Notting Hill Again (1999) and Eat Pray Love (2010). She has also provided her voice to the animated films Bolt (2008) and The Prince of Egypt (1998). Roberts has co-founded several charitable organizations, including the Roberts Cancer Research Foundation and the Roberts Family Fund at Lincoln Center.

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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
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True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you. Julia Roberts
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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
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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
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'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. Julia Roberts
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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
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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
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Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. Julia Roberts
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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
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I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. Julia Roberts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. Julia Roberts
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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.' Julia Roberts
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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
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I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. Julia Roberts
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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself. Julia Roberts
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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. Julia Roberts