Top 100 Julia Roberts Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “God dwells within me. As me.”

— Julia Roberts

2. “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

3. “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

4. “Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”

— Julia Roberts

5. “True love doesn’t come to you it has to be inside you.”

— Julia Roberts

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

— Julia Roberts

7. “I’m too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn’t call myself a woman. I’d say I’m somewhere between a chick and a broad.”

— Julia Roberts

8. “How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.”

— Julia Roberts

9. “Wit is the key, I think, to anybody’s heart, because who doesn’t like to laugh?”

— Julia Roberts

10. “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

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

— Julia Roberts

12. “I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something.”

— Julia Roberts

13. “I only put clothes on so that I’m not naked when I go out shopping.”

— Julia Roberts

14. “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

15. “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

16. “Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.”

— Julia Roberts

17. “Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.”

— Julia Roberts

18. “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

19. “Loving what you do is the secret to everything.”

— Julia Roberts

20. “Some people are antagonized by the truth.”

— Julia Roberts

21. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

22. “I’m an utterly average, total geek.”

— Julia Roberts

23. “I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn’t have one for best actor.”

— Julia Roberts

24. “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

25. “What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.”

— Julia Roberts

26. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

27. “In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.”

— Julia Roberts

28. “A fever is an expression of inner rage.”

— Julia Roberts

29. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

30. “I don’t think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.”

— Julia Roberts

31. “It’s my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it’s a luxury on a level that I didn’t even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.”

— Julia Roberts

32. “I’ve sort of grown into my cuteness.”

— Julia Roberts

33. “The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.”

— Julia Roberts

34. “Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.”

— Julia Roberts

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

— Julia Roberts

36. “When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there.”

— Julia Roberts

37. “I’m too tall to be a girl. I’m between a chick and a broad.”

— Julia Roberts

38. “My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.”

— Julia Roberts

39. “I went out in my goddamn underwear too!”

— Julia Roberts

40. “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

41. “If your friends won’t tell you the truth, who will?”

— Julia Roberts

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

— Julia Roberts

43. “We’ve all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.”

— Julia Roberts

44. “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

45. “I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.”

— Julia Roberts

46. “The kind of energy I attract is very calm.”

— Julia Roberts

47. “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

48. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

49. “Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.”

— Julia Roberts

50. “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