The Best Julia Roberts quotes

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. — Julia Roberts

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again. — 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’m so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it’s not so much that I’m happier now than ever; it’s that I’m more content. I’m in the harbor of my life. — Julia Roberts

I just have a great life. I know great people. I’ve had great relationships–all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this. — Julia Roberts

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. — Julia Roberts

Something that’s such a joy in my life every day–cooking–is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world. — Julia Roberts

Patchouli has always been a part of my fragrance, like a line through my life. — Julia Roberts

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. — Julia Roberts

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. — 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

Because of being married, I’ve met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life–not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that’s astounding. — Julia Roberts

I don’t think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life. — Julia Roberts

The kind of energy I attract is very calm. — Julia Roberts

True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you. — Julia Roberts

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 L. Roberts

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. — Julia Roberts

I am completely happy with my life. I love everything about it. — Julia Roberts

You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you… Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting. — Julia Roberts

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. — Julia Roberts

How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces. — Julia Roberts

The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really. — Julia Roberts

Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. — Julia Roberts

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. — Julia Roberts

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

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by. — 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

Loving what you do is the secret to everything. — Julia Roberts

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies. — 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

On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don’t think your high–school algebra teacher should be one of them. — Julia Roberts

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. — 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 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

In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight. — Julia Roberts

The only time I’ve ever gone against my instincts, I’ve regretted it. It was only really one time. — Julia Roberts

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I’ve ever gone against my instincts, I’ve regretted it. — Julia Roberts

An Oscar is a total honor. It’s thrilling, and on the one hand, it means a lot of things, and on the other hand, it doesn’t really mean anything. It’s a moment in time. — Julia Roberts

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I’ve had in my past worked for so long is because when you’re making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don’t even see the person. — Julia Roberts

My life at home gives me absolute joy. Having so much time there with the family has just been incredible. My life has changed and I work less, but I was never really one to work too much. — Julia Roberts

I would rather have 30 minutes of ‘wonderful’ than a lifetime of nothing special. — Julia L. Roberts

I’m tall and smart. If you’re aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren’t very smart themselves. — Julia Roberts

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!’ — Julia Roberts

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. — Julia Roberts

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal. — Julia Roberts