Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts

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As an American actress (b. 1967), Julia Roberts contributed not just to their field but to the broader conversation about what it means to live well. Known for her leading roles across several genres, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards, their words carry the weight of lived experience. Browse 30 quotes by Julia Roberts that cover ground from Women, Movies, Science, Love, and Happiness. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat."

“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

Society

All Quotes by 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.'”

— Julia Roberts

Car

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

— Julia Roberts

Love

“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

Happiness

“Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.”

— Julia Roberts

Communication

“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

Romantic

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

— Julia Roberts

Home

“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

Funny

“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.”

— Julia Roberts

Wedding

“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

Relationship

“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

Business

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

— Julia Roberts

Movies

“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

Business

“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

Famous

“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

Society

“During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.”

— Julia Roberts

Beauty

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

— Julia Roberts

Love

“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

Movies

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

— Julia Roberts

Happiness

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

— Julia Roberts

Women

“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

Age