Top 100 Julia Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’m definitely a practicing Hindu.”

— Julia Roberts

52. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

53. “Show me a mall, and I’m happy.”

— Julia Roberts

54. “When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.”

— Julia Roberts

55. “I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.”

— Julia Roberts

56. “Let’s get a couple of things straight. It hasn’t been years and years since I made a movie. I’m not coming back from the dead – I’ve just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it’s impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren’t that many good films made.”

— Julia Roberts

57. “You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.”

— Julia Roberts

58. “It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.”

— Julia Roberts

59. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

60. “I’m a regular person with an extraordinary job.”

— Julia Roberts

61. “I’m a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I’ve cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn’t trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I’m pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not.”

— Julia Roberts

62. “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

63. “I just want to make a point that it’s not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it’s the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.”

— Julia Roberts

64. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

65. “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

66. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

67. “I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.”

— Julia Roberts

68. “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

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

— Julia Roberts

70. “I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.”

— Julia Roberts

71. “Show me a person who doesn’t like to laugh and I’ll show you a person with a toe tag.”

— Julia Roberts

72. “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

73. “It’s very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.”

— Julia Roberts

74. “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

75. “I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I’m not going to direct a movie.”

— Julia Roberts

76. “Babies aren’t really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.”

— Julia Roberts

77. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

78. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

79. “In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.”

— Julia Roberts

80. “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!”

— Julia Roberts

81. “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

82. “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

83. “I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.”

— Julia Roberts

84. “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

85. “Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.”

— Julia Roberts

86. “In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for ‘Pretty Woman.’”

— Julia Roberts

87. “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

88. “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

89. “What a relief. I didn’t have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship.”

— Julia Roberts

90. “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

91. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

92. “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

93. “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.”

— Julia Roberts

94. “I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.”

— Julia Roberts

95. “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

96. “It’s amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.”

— Julia Roberts

97. “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

98. “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

99. “I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.”

— Julia Roberts

100. “Unintentionally, I’ve pulled the pin and lobbed a grenade into an already explosive situation.”

— Julia Roberts