Quotes from Julia Roberts


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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.


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.


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.


I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.


I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?


I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.


I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.


Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.


You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.


Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.


Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it.


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.


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


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


'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.


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.


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.


A fever is an expression of inner rage.


I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.


True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.