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Sometimes People Think Of Actors As Marionettes - Everybody Else Makes The Decisions For Us - And, You Know, Really, Making This Decision [of Which Roles To Take] Is The Only Thing You Lay Claim To.

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Sometimes People Think Of Actors As Marionettes - Everybody Else Makes The Decisions For Us - And, You Know, Really, Making This Decision [of Which Roles To Take] Is The Only Thing You Lay Claim To.

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My Life At Home Gives Me Absolute Joy. There Are Some Days When, As Soon As You've Finished Cooking Breakfast And Cleaning Up The Kitchen, It's Time To Start Lunch, And By The Time You've Done That, You're Doing Dinner And Thinking, 'there Has To Be A Menu We Can Order From.'

You Can Be True To The Character All You Want But You've Got To Go Home With Yourself.

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.

My Greatest Sense Comes From The Experience Of Performing In The Movie. When I Have A Great Experience, That Becomes A Perfect Movie. If It Makes A Nickel, It's Still Perfect. The Same Is True With A Movie That's A Bad Experience. If It Makes A Bejillion Dollars, I Will Hate It Till The End Of Time.

It's Amazing What Can Happen If You Just Put Your Arm Around Somebody.

I Had Lunch The Other Day With My Niece, Emma, And She Said, 'you're So Smart, Aunt Julia.' And I Wanted To Say, 'i'm Not Smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'

I Want My Kids To Know When I'm Pissed, When I'm Happy And When I'm Confounded.

I Love To Cook, And I Love To Have All My Family Around The Dinner Table.

If Your Friends Won't Tell You The Truth, Who Will?

I Don't Think I Realized That The Cost Of Fame Is That It's Open Season On Every Moment Of Your Life.

Something That's Such A Joy In My Life Every Day - Cooking - Is This Incredible, Horrific Danger To Women Around The World.

In Case I Forget To Tell You Later, I Had A Really Good Time Tonight.

'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.

The Jobs Don't Get Married. The People Get Married.

I Think I've Always Sort Of Been On The More Boyish Spectrum Of Girls. For Example, I've Never Been Chosen As 'one Of The Top-five Hottest Actresses In A Bikini.' And Honestly, It's A Godsend. When I Was Younger, I'd Think, 'oh, I'm The Prettiest One. It's Not Halle Berry. It's Not!' But It Is, You Know?

Show Me A Person Who Doesn't Like To Laugh And I'll Show You A Person With A Toe Tag.

Love Is Not Love, Without A Violin Playing Goat.

I Only Put Clothes On So That I'm Not Naked When I Go Out Shopping.

You Know It's Love When All You Want Is That Person To Be Happy, Even If You're Not Part Of Their Happiness.

I Think Less Is More When It Comes To Kissing In The Movies.

Sometimes People Think Of Actors As Marionettes - Everybody Else Makes The Decisions For Us - And, You Know, Really, Making This Decision [of Which Roles To Take] Is The Only Thing You Lay Claim To.

I'm Definitely A Practicing Hindu.

Whatever Happens Is Going To Happen, Whether You're Sitting By The Phone Anxious And Worried About It Or Not.

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.

What Changes With Fame Is The Perceptions Of The Individual Rather Than The Individual.

How Lucky We Are That We Love Each Other So Much That We Burst Into Three Pieces.

Life Is So Precious. Please, Please, Let's Love One Another, Live Each Day, Reach Out To Each Other, Be Kind To Each Other. Peace Be With You. God Is Great.

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.

You Know When People Are Stupid, It Frustrates Me.

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.

The First Time I Felt I Was Famous Was When I Went To The Movies With My Mom. I Had Gone To The Loo, And Someone In The Bathroom Said In A Very Loud Voice, Girl In Stall No. 1 Were You In Mystic Pizza? I Paused And I Said, Yeah That Was Me.

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.

You Know That Place Between Sleep And Awake? The Place Where You Still Remember Dreaming? That's Where I'll Always Love You... Peter Pan. That's Where I'll Be Waiting.

In Essence, I Owe My Career To Garry Marshall. There Was No Known Reason For Him To Hire Me For 'pretty Woman.'

Why Is It So Weird That Somebody Didn't Recognize Me?... The Fact Is That Whenever I Meet Somebody, I Say, 'nice To Meet You. I'm Julia.'

Nice To Meet You

When I Was A Child I Had A Crush On Abraham Lincoln. Why I Would Choose To Reveal This, I Know Not.

The Babies Are Amazing ... They Begin Each Day All Warm And Sleepy, Smelling Of Promise.

I Have Too Much Potential For Collapse. There's An Anonymity That Makes People Feel Safe To Participate In Hatefulness. I Like A Good Old-fashioned Fistfight If People Are Pissed Off At Each Other. I Just Feel Like If You're Really Mad And Want To Have A Fight, Then Put Your Dukes Up.

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.

I've Never Had To Pretend To Be Having Sex With Somebody. I'm Like The Queen Of The Foreplay Dissolve.

If You're At The Sink Washing The Cup, Wash The Cup. Don't Worry About Everything Else. ... We Forget To Appreciate The Simplest Moments Of The Day, The Sublime In The Ordinary.

We've All Been Broken At Some Point. Forgiving Ourselves Or Another Person Helps Us Move Forward.

Show Me A Mall, And I'm Happy.

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.

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.

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.

It's Very Important That We Expand Our Use Of Clean Energy And Make A Long-term Commitment To It.

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.

It's Amazing What Can Happen If You Just Put Your Arm Around Somebody. It's The Truest Thing And The Simplest Thing That Does The Most Good A Lot Of Times And I Hope That We Can All Just Reach Out To Each Other.

I Am An Actor And Of Course I Respond Very Positively To Flattery.

Loving What You Do Is The Secret To Everything.

Loving What You Do

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.

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.

The Key To Beauty Is Always To Be Looking At Someone Who Loves You, Really.

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.

The Kind Of Energy I Attract Is Very Calm.

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.

People Came Up: 'i Thought You Were 6 Ft Tall.' I'm Average Height - 5 Ft 8 Ins, Skinny Blonde. One Guy Says To Me 'so, Where's The Fox From Mystic Pizza?

I Tried Botox One Time And Was Permanently Surprised For A Couple Of Months. It Was Not A Cute Look For Me. My Feeling Is, I Have Three Children Who Should Know What Emotion I'm Feeling At The Exact Moment I'm Feeling It... That Is Critical.

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.

I Would Just Like To Say This About All The Married People Working Together On The Set: It Was Just A Joy. That Is The Great Joy To Go To Work With People That You Love, Whether They Be People That You Are In Love With Or People That You Just Love And Be Creative And Artistic And Make Things That You Want To Send Out Into The World And Make People Feel Good. It Was A Great Environment To Work In For Me.

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.

My Real Hair Color Is Kind Of A Dark Blonde. Now I Just Have Mood Hair.

Happiness Isn't Happiness Unless There's A Violin-playing Goat.

Wit Is The Key, I Think, To Anybody's Heart, Because Who Doesn't Like To Laugh?

I Have Very Smart Parents. I Feel I Learned A Lot From Both Of My Parents And Life Experience.

Life Experience

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.

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.

Usually The Triumph Of My Day Is, You Know, Everybody Making It To The Potty

If You Love Someone, You Say It, Right Then, Out Loud. Otherwise, The Moment Just Passes You By.

I Want To Go Someplace Where I Can Marvel At Something.

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.

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.'

It's Very Important That We Expand Our Use Of Clean Energy And Make A Long-term Commitment To It. Biodiesel And Ethanol Are Better For The Environment And For The Air We Breathe. The Use Of Biodiesel Is A Positive Step Toward Minimizing Pollutive Emissions And Greenhouse Gases. By Focusing On School Buses, We Can Affect The Health And Wellbeing Of The People Most Susceptible To That Pollution - Our Children - Today.

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.

Babies Aren't Really Born Of Their Parents. They Are Born Of Every Kind Word, Loving Gesture, Hope, And Dream Their Parents Ever Had.

When People Do Bad Things Intentionally, They Know They've Done Them. But It's Not To Be Cared About. That's The Problem With The Tabloid Press; They Dramatize These Things Until There's A State Of Frenzy. People See Frenzy And They Go, "what?" Then They Clamor Toward The Frenzy. We All Do It. It's A Primal, Natural Response.

I, Uh...i Have A Television, So I'm Going To Spend Some Time Here To Tell You Some Things. [to Orchestra Conductor:] And, And...and Sir, You're Doing A Great Job, But You're So Quick With That Stick, So Why Don't You Sit. 'cause I May Never Be Here Again.'

I'm Just An Ordinary Person Who Has An Extraordinary Job.

Some People Are Antagonized By The Truth.

I Certainly Take Work As A Joyous Responsibility.

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.

I'm A Regular Person With An Extraordinary Job.

In My Life I Think I Made Really Solid Decisions, And I Would Stand By Them All Over Again.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's My Privilege And Honor To Cook Three Meals A Day For My Family, And It's A Luxury On A Level That I Didn't Even Realize, Because It Can Be Relentless For Me On Some Days. You Have Pride In How You Take Care Of Your Family.

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.

I'm Tall And Smart. If You're Aggressive And Energetic It Can Be Intimidating For People Who Aren't Very Smart Themselves.

An Oscar Is A Total Honor. It's Thrilling, And On The One Hand, It Means A Lot Of Things, And On The Other Hand, It Doesn't Really Mean Anything. It's A Moment In Time.

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.

[on Refusing To Do Nude Movie Scenes:] There Are Certain People Who Should Know What You Look Like Naked. I Just Don't Think Your High-school Algebra Teacher Should Be One Of Them.

I Think People Who Come Into My Home Feel Comfortable And Welcome And Loved. And The Biggest Thing In My Living Room (the Fireplace) Is In And Of Itself An Expression Of Love.

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.

I Cannot Absorb Living In A World Where I Have An Oscar For Best Actress And Denzel Doesn't Have One For Best Actor.

I Enjoy Hats. And When One Has Filthy Hair, That Is A Good Accessory.

I Love Romantic Comedies. I Like To Watch Them And I Like To Be In Them.

True Love Doesn't Come To You It Has To Be Inside You.

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.

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.

I'm Too Tall To Be A Girl. I'm Between A Chick And A Broad.

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!

[never Underestimate] The Power Of Dinner.

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.

I've Always Been An Environmentalist, But My Life Changed The Day I Had Children. I Realized That I Wasn't Doing Enough To Protect The Planet. People Need Nature, And Of Course I Want My Children To Have The Best Possible Opportunity In Life. I Also Realized How Important It Was For Me To Raise Them To Be Conscientious People That Are Aware Of Their Impact On The Earth.

I Went Out In My Goddamn Underwear Too!

A Fever Is An Expression Of Inner Rage.

I Don't Think Fame Changes People. People Change As They Gather More Experiences And Information About Life.

When You've Got Four People To Get Dressed To Get Out The Door You Don't Really Spend A Lot Of Time On Yourself. But That's The Way I Roll Anyway. I Was Never One To Do My Hair And Make-up Just To Go To The Market, So It's Not That Much Different. If I Get A Little Eye Cream On, I Feel I'm Ahead Of Myself.

People Don't Want To See Me Having Sex... I'm The Queen Of The 'kiss, Foreplay, Dissolve.' And Then The 'whoo! Good Morning, Tiger.

I Can't Wait To Have Kids; I Just Can't Wait To Hold A Baby In My Arms.

Look Beyond The Paint. Let Us Try To Open Our Minds To A New Idea.

God Dwells Within Me. As Me.

I Would Like To Learn To Play The Cello. I Would Like To Paint. I Would Like To Fully Understand The Concept Of Pi.

I'm Too Tall To Be A Girl, I Never Had Enough Dresses To Be A Lady, I Wouldn't Call Myself A Woman. I'd Say I'm Somewhere Between A Chick And A Broad.

There's One Little Room In My House Which Is Filled With All My Clutter And Bits And Pieces. My Sewing Machine Is Up There, And All My Knitting Stuff. Its A Place Where I Can Go To Relax And Unwind. I Don't Get To Spend A Lot Of Time Up There, But At Least I Know Its There.

I've Sort Of Grown Into My Cuteness.

I Have Had A Lot Of Your Countrymen As Co-stars, That's True. I Quite Like Them Both. It Depends On The Person. I Don't Think English Makes The Man Nor Does American, But I Like This Guy Right Here [clive]. He's Nice And Tall, Which Means I Never Have A Double Chin - There's Lots Of Shots Of Me Looking Up, And I'm A Swan. Well, We All Laugh But It's So True.

I Can Direct Breakfast, Lunch, And Dinner. I Take Pride In My Kitchen, But I'm Not Going To Direct A Movie.

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.

Real Emotion Transcends Language. You Dont Have To Understand Their Words To Feel Their Pain.

Because Of Being Married, I've Met People And Experienced All These Little Things That Have Nurtured My Life - Not So Much Changed It, Just Nurtured It In A Way That's Astounding.

When You End Up Happily Married, Even The Failed Relationships Have Worked Beautifully To Get You There.

Failed Relationship

The Man's [bush] Embarrassing. He's Not My President And He Never Will Be Either.

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.

Your Face Tells A Story And It Shouldn't Be A Story About Your Drive To The Doctor's Office.

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.

I Do Think That I Am Fundamentally The Same Relatively Simple Person I've Always Been. I Just Have This Flashy, Wacky Job [actress] That Confuses People Into Thinking That I'm Somehow Ultrafascinating.

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.

I'm An Utterly Average, Total Geek.

I'm So Lucky To Be Crazy Happy In My Life. And I Think It's Not So Much That I'm Happier Now Than Ever; It's That I'm More Content. I'm In The Harbor Of My Life.

Part Of The Reason Why Some Of The Relationships I've Had In My Past Worked For So Long Is Because When You're Making Movies, A Huge Gap Of Time Can Pass When You Don't Even See The Person.

I Wouldn't Do Nudity In Films. For Me, Personally... To Act With My Clothes On Is A Performance; To Act With My Clothes Off Is A Documentary.

The Only Time I've Ever Gone Against My Instincts, I've Regretted It. It Was Only Really One Time.

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.

Whats Nice About My Dating Life Is That I Dont Have To Leave My House. All I Have To Do Is Read The Paper: Im Marrying Richard Gere, Dating Daniel Day-lewis, Parading Around With John F. Kennedy, Jr., And Even Robert De Niro Was In There For A Day.

~i Try To Call My Mother, Betty, With More Regularity Because I Think, What If Hazel Didn't Call Me For Two Weeks? I'm Able To See Her Mothering Now From A Different Vantage Point.~

Don't Forget I'm Just A Girl, Standing In Front Of A Boy, Asking Him To Love Her.

Republican Comes In The Dictionary Just After Reptile And Just Above Repugnant.

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.

Some Great Friendships Can Be Formed Because You See One Another At Your Best And Worst.

Great Friendship

People Love Scandal; People Love Drama. They Love Stripping Away The Layers To See What's Really In There, And They'll Do Anything - As Well As Make It Up - To Get It.

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