Category: Julia Roberts

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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