3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.’
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts You can be true to the character all you want but you’ve got to go home with yourself.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts ‘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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts Something that’s such a joy in my life every day – cooking – is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts 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.
