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" I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to. "

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" 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. "

Julia Roberts

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" 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. "

" My life at home gives me absolute joy. Having so much time there with the family has just been incredible. My life has changed and I work less, but I was never really one to work too much. "

" When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it's going, you'll be okay. Then you become more relaxed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Actually, I'm not crazed about what I eat. "

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

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

" 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! "

" 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 love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. "

" Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. "

" The things that are correct for me will come to me at the time that I am interested in them and have the capacity, the understanding, to do them. "

" I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. "

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

" Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. "

" 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. "

" I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie. "

" The body is a great machine, and it knows how to take care of itself. I think more often than not the things we do to our skin or our bodies can hold it back from doing its proper job. "

" 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. "

" People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market. "

Julia Roberts

Everyone

I Can

" I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. "

" Show me a mall, and I'm happy. "

Julia Roberts

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Mall

" 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'm a regular person with an extraordinary job. "